Departamento asignado a la asignatura: Departamento de Economía
Tipo: Obligatoria
Créditos: 6.0 ECTS
Curso: 1º
Cuatrimestre: 2º
Requisitos (Asignaturas o materias cuyo conocimiento se presupone)
Basic calculus, classic microeconomics, game theory.
Objetivos
- Teaches students the standards of precision and rigor in economic analysis and professional communication.
- Emphasizes autonomous and group learning.
- Familiarizes students with a set of tools appropriate for economic analysis.
- Teaches students the role of financial markets in competitive economies and the sources of market failure, and introduces methods for dealing with individuals' incentives in the design of contracts and social institutions.
Descripción de contenidos: Programa
1. Time and Uncertainty in Competitive Economies
2. Market Failure: externalities, public goods, market power, asymmetric information
3. Introduction to the Economics of Information.
Actividades formativas, metodología a utilizar y régimen de tutorías
- Lectures in which the basic material is presented and discussed. Basic textbook references are provided with to complete and deepen students understanding.
- Discussion of the solution to practical exercises to provide students with feedback on their level of understanding and difficulties.
Sistema de evaluación
Peso porcentual del Examen Final 60
Peso porcentual del resto de la evaluación 40
Bibliografía básica
I. Macho and D. Perez-Castrillo. An Introduction to the Economics of Information. Oxford UP . 2001
R. Serrano and M. Feldman. A Short Course in Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus. Cambridge UP.
Bibliografía complementaria
A. Mas-Colell, M. Whiston and J. Green. Microeconomic Theory. Oxford UP . 1995
G. Jehle and P. Reny. Advanced Microeconomic Theory. Pearson. 2011
R. Gibbons. A premier in Game Theory. Prentice Hall . 1992
El programa de la asignatura podría sufrir alguna variación por causa de fuerza mayor debidamente justificada o por eventos académicos comunicados con antelación.
