This is an introductory-level course in economics, with a focus on microeconomics and macroeconomics. The aim is to provide a general conceptual framework to analyze real economic problems.
Lectures and discussion of case studies.
This course teaches the most important basic concepts in microeconomics and macroeconomics. In the first part of the course, students will be introduced to a range of economic tools from microeconomics used to study models explicitly involving consumer and firm behavior in monopoly, oligopoly, perfect competition and the role of prices and institutions. In the second part of the course, students will be introduced to some analytical macroeconomic frameworks. In particular, the course will present national accounts, the role of money, fiscal and monetary policies, unemployment, inflation and fundamentals of modern theories of economic growth. For each topic case studies and real-world examples will be analyzed.