VSFS:B_MiE Microeconomics - Course Information

B_MiE Microeconomics

Extent and Intensity

2/2/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Michal Blahout, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ing. Miroslav Jurásek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Petr Mach, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Bc. Jiří Mihola, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Radim Valenčík, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ing. Petr Wawrosz, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ing. Petr Wawrosz, Ph.D.
Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Bc. Kamila Procházková

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_MiE/cEKKV: each even Wednesday 10:30–11:14 KV206, each even Wednesday 11:15–12:00 KV206, each even Wednesday 12:15–12:59 KV206, each even Wednesday 13:00–13:45 KV206, R. Valenčík
B_MiE/cEKPH: Wed 12:15–12:59 E123, Wed 13:00–13:45 E123, P. Mach
B_MiE/cFPH: Thu 8:45–9:29 E024, Thu 9:30–10:15 E024, M. Jurásek
B_MiE/cMMO: Tue 10:30–11:14 M14, Tue 11:15–12:00 M14, R. Valenčík
B_MiE/cMPH: Thu 10:30–11:14 E024, Thu 11:15–12:00 E024, except Thu 17. 12. ; and Thu 17. 12. 12:15–13:45 E125, M. Jurásek
B_MiE/cPPKV: each odd Wednesday 10:30–11:14 KV211, each odd Wednesday 11:15–12:00 KV211, each odd Wednesday 12:15–12:59 KV211, each odd Wednesday 13:00–13:45 KV211, M. Blahout
B_MiE/cPPPH: Wed 10:30–11:14 E228, Wed 11:15–12:00 E228, except Wed 9. 12. ; and Wed 9. 12. 12:15–13:45 E123, P. Mach
B_MiE/pEKFMPPPH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E004, Mon 13:00–13:45 E004, P. Wawrosz
B_MiE/pEKPPKV: each odd Tuesday 14:00–14:44 KV301, each odd Tuesday 14:45–15:30 KV301, each odd Tuesday 15:45–16:29 KV301, each odd Tuesday 16:30–17:15 KV301, P. Wawrosz
B_MiE/pMMO: Tue 8:45–9:29 M14, Tue 9:30–10:15 M14, R. Valenčík
B_MiE/vEKFMPH: Sat 10. 10. 8:00–9:30 E230, 9:45–11:15 E230, 11:30–13:00 E230, Fri 6. 11. 17:30–19:00 E230, 19:15–20:45 E230, Sat 5. 12. 8:00–9:30 E230, 9:45–11:15 E230, 11:30–13:00 E230, M. Jurásek
B_MiE/vRRMO: Sat 14. 11. 11:30–13:00 M01, 14:00–15:30 M01, Fri 27. 11. 14:00–15:30 M01, 15:45–17:15 M01, 17:30–19:00 M01, Fri 11. 12. 14:00–15:30 M01, 15:45–17:15 M01, 17:30–19:00 M01, M. Blahout
B_MiE/3rocnik: No timetable has been entered into IS.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The aim of the subjects is to introduce students with microeconomic on the bachelor level. The students will be introduced with: - laws and principles of economics (as law of diminishing marginal revenues, law of diminishing marginal product, principle of opportunity costs and principle of sunk costs) - consumers and firms behavior - market equilibrium (compliance of supply and demand) is established - elasticity of supply and demand curve - market structures: perfect competition, imperfect competition (monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly) - productions factor market (including labor market) and capital market including factors affecting the price of productions factors and interest rate - general equilibrium model - microeconomic reason for government (state) interference on the market and with the essence of allocation, redistributive, legislative and regulatory function of state; including the public goods, externalities and other reasons for markwt intervention;

Learning outcomes

Students will be, after finishing the course, able: - to understand basic laws and principles of microeconomics - to explain behavior of conusmers and firms - to know what happens on the goods market, factor market and loanable market - to understand the concept of general equilibrium - to know microeconomic reason for government intervention

Syllabus

• The structure of the lectures: 1. lecture: definition and essence of microeconomics, basic terms, principles and laws of microeconomic. 2. lecture: theory of consumer behavior, individual demand curve. 3. lecture: theory of firm – production function, optimal combinations of production factors, accounting and economic profit, absolute and comparative advantage. 4. lecture: costs and revenues of firm, individual supply curve, break-even point and shutdown point. 5. lecture: market and market equilibrium, market demand curve, market supply curve, the reason of market disequilibrium, consumer surplus, producers surplus, demand elasticity, supply elasticity. 6. lecture: perfect competition, its characteristic and signs, short run and long run firm equilibrium in prefect competition, Pareto efficiency of perfect competition, imperfect competition, its its characteristic and signs, short run and long run firm equilibrium in imperfect competition dead weight loss in imperfect competition. 7. lecture: monopolistic competition and oligopoly, monopoly, kinds and reason of monopoly, the harmful effects of monopoly. 8. lecture: production factor markets – it essence, Clark’s chart, demand and supply on productive factors market, equilibrium and disequilibrium on the production factors market, specifics of labor market.9. lecture: capital market - investment, saving, its essence, decision about investment and saving, 10. lecture: general equilibrium theory – equilibrium in production, production possibility frontier, equilibrium in consumption. 11. lecture: general equilibrium theory -production-consumer equilibrium, the importance of general equilibrium model. 12. lecture: microeconomic role of state (government), allocation function, public goods, positive and negative externalities and other features of allocation function, redistributive, legislative and regulatory function of state.

Literature

required literature
• Heissler, Herbert; Valenčík, Radim; Wawrosz, Petr 2010. Mikroekonomie základní kurz. Praha: VŠFS.

recommended literature
• Holman, Robert 2011. Ekonomie. 5. vydání. Praha: C.H.Beck.
• : Blažek, Jiří; Heissler, Herbert; Kubíček, Jan; Viktorová, Dana; Heissler, Wawrosz, Petr 2012. Ekonomie, právo a hospodářská politika v českém prostředí. Praha: Wolters Kluwer.
• Jurečka, Václav 2010. Mikroekonomie. Praha: Grada.

not specified
• Tuleja, Pavel; Nezval, Pavel; Majerová, Ingrid 2011. Základy mikroekonomie. Brno: Computer Press.

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars on the full time form of the study, consultations on the part time form of the study. Students should attend at least 50 % of the tuitions, otherwise they receive substitute homework.

Assessment methods

The subject is finished by credit and exam. The acquiring of credit is necessary condition for student to be able to take the exam. The student acquires the credit if it fulfils conditions: 1. either it passes one test during tution and two electronic credit tests in basic variant. Each question in the electronic tests are scored, student have to receive minimum score to pass the test. The value of minimum score is mentioned in the test. 2. or it passes two electronic tests in difficult variant. The ekctronic tests in difficult variant differs from electronic tests in basic variant in the level of minimum score needed to pass a test. Electronic tests in difficult variant have higher score. Students with ISP or students not assigned to any seminar group (usually students who repeat the course) pass electronic tests in difficult variant as a compensation. The exam is oral. Details will be specified in the study materials of the subject.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 16 hodin KS/semestr.

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