Università Roma Tre

After a brief introduction on the object of anaysis economics, the course is divided into two parts. The first deals with the study of the fundamentals of microeconomics, the second of the fundamentals of macroeconomics.

INTRODUCTION
The principles of economics
The methodology of economic analysis: models and data
Causation and correlation

MICROECONOMICS
The principle of optimization
The model of demand and supply
Consumers and incentives
Consumer surplus and demand elasticity
Companies in a competitive market
Producer surplus and supply elasticity
Perfect competition and efficiency
Externalities and public goods
The role of the State: taxes and regulation
Labour demand
Firms in monopoly
Introduction to game theory and oligopoly
Information asymmetries and information economy

MACROECONOMICS
Macroeconomic aggregates
GDP and other measures of the welfare of nations
The determinants of economic growth: from the Solow model to the theory of endogenous growth
Employment and unemployment
The monetary and credit system
Short-term economic fluctuations: the model of aggregate demand and supply
The determinants of aggregate demand in a closed economy and an open economy: from the Keynesian cross to the IS-LM model

Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson and John A. List
Economics
Pearson
ISBN 9780321391582

Ernesto Lorenzo Felli
Introduzione alla macroeconomia
Giappichelli editore
ISBN 9788834899526