Università Roma Tre

Part I– Microeconomics: I. Economic Choice; II. Goods and services; III. Markets; IV. Economic equilibrium; V. Demand; VI. Supply; VII. Perfect competition; VIII. Imperfect competition; IX. Labor market; X. Factor markets.
Part II – Macroeconomics: I. National accounting; II. The Income-expenditure model; III. Money and financial markets; IV. The IS-LM model; V. Demand-side policies; VI. Inflation and unemployment; VII. Economic growth; VIII. The open economy.

Saltari, Enrico, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, and Riccardo Tilli. Principi di economia politica. Carocci, 2019.

Blanchard, Olivier, Alessia AMIGHINI, and Francesco Giavazzi. "Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea." (2020).

Part I– Microeconomics: I. Economic Choice; II. Goods and services; III. Markets; IV. Economic equilibrium; V. Demand; VI. Supply; VII. Perfect competition; VIII. Imperfect competition; IX. Labor market; X. Factor markets.
Part II – Macroeconomics: I. National accounting; II. The Income-expenditure model; III. Money and financial markets; IV. The IS-LM model; V. Demand-side policies; VI. Inflation and unemployment; VII. Economic growth; VIII. The open economy.

Saltari, Enrico, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, and Riccardo Tilli. Principi di economia politica. Carocci, 2019.

Blanchard, Olivier, Alessia AMIGHINI, and Francesco Giavazzi. "Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea." (2020).

Part I - Introduction and National accounts
0. Introduction to economics. Organization of the class
1. National accounts
2. Numbers of the economy
Part II - Macroeconomics (short run, closed economy)
3. Income-expenditure model in a closed economy
4. Money and financial markets
5. IS-LM model in a closed economy
Part III - Microeconomics
6. Consumption
7. Production and costs
8. Perfect competition
9. Monopoly
10. Monopolistic competition, oligopoly, introduction to game theory
11. Free competition and prices
12. Further topics in microeconomics: market failures, uncertainty, asymmetric information, antitrust policies, regulation of natural monopolies, network externalities
13. Labor market
14. Wages
Part V – Macroeconomics (medium and long run, closed economy)
15. Demand and supply policies
16. Inflation and unemployment
17. Recession, inflation, deflation
18. Monetary policy rules, algebra of public debt
19. Economic growth
Part V – Open economy
20. Balance of payments and exchange rates
21. Income-expenditure model in an open economy
22. IS-LM model in an open economy
23. Exchange rates regimes, European Economic and Monetary Union

O. Blanchard, A. Amighini, F. Giavazzi, Macroeconomia, Il Mulino, last edition, cap. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20
R. H. Frank, Microeconomia, McGraw Hill Italia, last edition, cap. 3, 4, 6.2, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6.1, 15.2, 15.7
The basic materials for studying are contained in the slide of the lectures, available on the Moodle site of the course

Part I
1. Introduction

Parte II. Microeconomics
3. Consumer theory
4. Production theory
5. Game theory and economics of information
6. Market structure
7. Economic agents behaviour

Part II. Macroeconomics
8. The wealth of nations
9. Growth theory
10. Employment and unemployment
11. Monetary system
12. International trade
13. Open economy

The contents of this course can be found on any microeconomics and macroeconomics textbook for undergraduates.
This course will be mostly based on:
[ALL] Acemoglu, D., D. Laibson, J.A. List (2020). Principi di economia politica. Teoria ed evidenza empirica. 2a ed., Pearson.

Other suggested readings:
[SNB] Samuelson, P.A., D.W. Nordhaus, C.A. Bollino (2006). Economia. Mc Graw Hill, XXI ed.
[BBZ] Becchetti, L., L. Bruni, S. Zamagni (2014). Microeconomia. Un testo di economia civile. Il Mulino.
[BAG] Blanchard, O., A. Amighini, F. Giavazzi (2020). Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva Europea. Il Mulino.