NA_MiE Microeconomics

Vysoká škola finanční a správní
zima 2024
Rozsah
2/1/0. 16 hodin KS/semestr. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Garance
doc. Ing. Jan Mertl, Ph.D.
Katedra ekonomie a managementu (FES, KEM) – Katedry – Vysoká škola finanční a správní
Kontaktní osoba: Bc. Kateřina Konupková
Předpoklady
There are no prerequisites for this course. The knowledge of undergraduate economics is useful but it is not a necessary condition for the study.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je otevřen studentům libovolného oboru.
Cíle předmětu
The aim of this course is to understand the decision-making of consumers and firms at the intermediate level including the concepts of risk, inter-temporal choice and price discrimination.
Výstupy z učení
Students will understand various factors of demand and supply, the effects of government interventions to the market and the logic of the behaviour of firms under monopoly, oligopoly and monopolist competition as well as the decision-making of consumers about spending, saving and investments in human capital.
Osnova
  • The structure of lectures
  • 1. Analysis of Demand
  • 2. Analysis of Supply
  • 3. Effects of government interventions to the market
  • 4. Taxes in Economic theory
  • 5. Price discrimination and auctions
  • 6. Advertising in economic theory
  • 7. Inter-temporal choice and capital markets
  • 8. Decision-making under risk and insurance
  • 9. Oligopoly, monopoly and monopolistic competition
  • 10. Theory of goods and asymmetry of information
  • 11. Externalities
  • 12. Public Choice theory
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Mach, P.: Textbook of Intermediate Economics, (available in IS)
    doporučená literatura
  • MANKIW, N. Gregory Principles of Microeconomics. 9th ed. Cengage Learning. South-Western College Pub. 2020. 528 s. ISBN 978-0357133484.
  • Sobel, R., Gwartney, J., Stroup, R., Macpherson, D.: Understanding Microeconomics. 13th Edition. Cengage Learning. ISBN-13: 978-0-538-75619-8
  • VARIAN, H. R. Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, 8th edition. 2019. ISBN 978-0-393-93424-3
  • MACH, Petr. Textbook of Elementary Economics. Prague: VŠFS. ISBN 978-80-7408-193-4. 2019. info
Výukové metody
Lectures and seminars on the full-time form of the study, and consultations on the combined form of the study.
Students should attend at least 75% of the seminars in the present form and at least 50%. Students on an individual study plan are not obliged to meet the condition of attendance.
The prerequisite of the study is knowledge the economics at the bachelor's level. The students without such knowledge are advised to learn from the book MACH, P.: Textbook of Elementary Economics.
Metody hodnocení
The course is completed by credit and exam. Getting credit is a prerequisite for registration for the exam.
The student gains credit upon meeting these conditions:
1. Meeting attendance requirements
2. Passing the midterm credit test and the final credit test with more than half correct answers
Tests are online in the IS
The exam is oral. The examiners will ask students about the key concepts published in the exam topics.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Petr Mach, Ph.D.
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