VSFS:B_MiE_A Microeconomics A - Course Information
B_MiE_A Microeconomics A
University of Finance and AdministrationWinter 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Ing. Petr Wawrosz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Rafik Bedretdinov, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Jiří Benesch, DiS. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Michal Blahout, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Oldřich Hataš (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. Mojmír Helísek, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ing. Miroslav Jurásek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Pavel Klička, PhD. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Petr Mach, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Bc. Jiří Mihola, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Ing. Markéta Šumpíková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Tomáš Teplík, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Mgr. Jaromír Tichý, Ph.D., MBA (seminar tutor)
doc. Radim Valenčík, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Jiří Vataha (seminar tutor)
Ing. Vladimír Kaucký, CSc. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Ing. Petr Wawrosz, Ph.D.
Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Dagmar Medová, DiS. - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- B_MiE_A/cBPH: Mon 10:30–11:14 E305, Mon 11:15–12:00 E305, T. Teplík
B_MiE_A/cMMO: Wed 10:30–11:14 M27, Wed 11:15–12:00 M27, J. Mihola
B_MiE_A/cM1PH: Thu 14:00–14:44 E127, Thu 14:45–15:30 E127, J. Mihola
B_MiE_A/cM2PH: Wed 17:30–18:14 E125, Wed 18:15–19:00 E125, J. Vataha
B_MiE_A/cM3PH: Wed 12:15–12:59 E224, Wed 13:00–13:45 E224, R. Bedretdinov
B_MiE_A/cM4PH: No timetable has been entered into IS.
B_MiE_A/cPPPH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E223, Mon 13:00–13:45 E223, T. Teplík
B_MiE_A/cRMO: Tue 10:30–11:14 M17, Tue 11:15–12:00 M17, P. Wawrosz
B_MiE_A/cR1PH: Wed 10:30–11:14 E224, Wed 11:15–12:00 E224, R. Bedretdinov
B_MiE_A/cR2PH: Mon 15:45–16:29 E223, Mon 16:30–17:15 E223, P. Mach
B_MiE_A/cR3PH: Tue 12:15–12:59 E225, Tue 13:00–13:45 E225, J. Mihola
B_MiE_A/cR4PH: Tue 10:30–11:14 E306, Tue 11:15–12:00 E306, J. Mihola
B_MiE_A/cSPH: Tue 8:45–9:29 E225, Tue 9:30–10:15 E225, T. Teplík
B_MiE_A/pBPPSPH: Wed 15:45–16:29 E306, Wed 16:30–17:15 E306, R. Valenčík
B_MiE_A/pMPH: Wed 14:00–14:44 E306, Wed 14:45–15:30 E306, R. Valenčík
B_MiE_A/pMRMO: Tue 8:45–9:29 M01, Tue 9:30–10:15 M01, P. Wawrosz
B_MiE_A/pM34PH: No timetable has been entered into IS.
B_MiE_A/pR12PH: Thu 12:15–12:59 E230, Thu 13:00–13:45 E230, M. Helísek
B_MiE_A/pR34PH: Tue 8:45–9:29 E306, Tue 9:30–10:15 E306, M. Helísek
B_MiE_A/uMPH: Tue 9. 10. 14:00–15:30 E129, Tue 23. 10. 14:00–15:30 E129, Tue 30. 10. 14:00–15:30 E129, Tue 6. 11. 14:00–15:30 E129, Tue 20. 11. 14:00–15:30 E129, Tue 27. 11. 17:30–19:00 E129, M. Jurásek
B_MiE_A/uMRKL: Tue 16. 10. 17:30–19:00 K203, 19:15–20:45 K203, Tue 20. 11. 14:00–15:30 K203, 15:45–17:15 K203, Tue 18. 12. 17:30–19:00 K203, 19:15–20:45 K203, P. Klička
B_MiE_A/uRPH: Tue 9. 10. 15:45–17:15 E128, Tue 23. 10. 15:45–17:15 E128, Tue 30. 10. 15:45–17:15 E128, Tue 6. 11. 15:45–17:15 E128, Tue 20. 11. 15:45–17:15 E128, Tue 27. 11. 15:45–17:15 E128, M. Jurásek
B_MiE_A/vBPPH: Sat 13. 10. 9:45–11:15 E123, 11:30–13:00 E123, Fri 26. 10. 17:15–18:45 E123, Fri 30. 11. 17:15–18:45 E123, Fri 14. 12. 15:30–17:00 E123, Fri 11. 1. 15:30–17:00 E024, O. Hataš
B_MiE_A/vMMO: Fri 12. 10. 12:00–13:30 M27, 13:45–15:15 M27, Fri 26. 10. 12:00–13:30 M27, 13:45–15:15 M27, Fri 9. 11. 12:00–13:30 M27, 13:45–15:15 M27, J. Mihola
B_MiE_A/vM2PH: Sat 13. 10. 14:00–15:30 E223, Sat 27. 10. 8:00–9:30 E223, Sat 10. 11. 14:00–15:30 E223, Sat 15. 12. 11:30–13:00 E223, 14:00–15:30 E223, Fri 11. 1. 15:30–17:00 E223, M. Jurásek
B_MiE_A/vM3PH: Fri 12. 10. 15:30–17:00 E224, Fri 9. 11. 15:30–17:00 E224, Sat 1. 12. 11:30–13:00 E224, 14:00–15:30 E224, Fri 14. 12. 15:30–17:00 E224, Fri 11. 1. 12:00–13:30 E224, M. Jurásek
B_MiE_A/vPPPH: Fri 26. 10. 13:45–15:15 E126, 15:30–17:00 E126, Fri 9. 11. 17:15–18:45 E126, Fri 30. 11. 15:30–17:00 E126, Fri 14. 12. 17:15–18:45 E126, Fri 11. 1. 13:45–15:15 E004, M. Jurásek
B_MiE_A/vRMO: Fri 12. 10. 15:30–17:00 M15, Fri 26. 10. 15:30–17:00 M01, Fri 9. 11. 15:30–17:00 M01, Fri 30. 11. 12:00–13:30 M01, 13:45–15:15 M01, Fri 14. 12. 12:00–13:30 M01, J. Mihola
B_MiE_A/vRPH: Fri 12. 10. 17:15–18:45 E125, Sat 27. 10. 9:45–11:15 E125, 11:30–13:00 E125, Sat 10. 11. 9:45–11:15 E125, 11:30–13:00 E125, Sat 1. 12. 9:45–11:15 E125, M. Jurásek - Prerequisites
- There are no special prerequisites for the study of the subject. The subject is compulsory for all students of the first year of bachelor study.
- 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 able at the end of the course: - to understand basic 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) - to understand how consumers and firms decide from economic point of view - to understand how market equilibrium (compliance of supply and demand) is established - to understand the topic of elasticity - to analyze different market structures: perfect competition, imperfect competition (monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly) - to understand the productions factor market (including labor market) and capital market including factors affecting the price of productions factors and interest rate - to understand the topic of general equilibrium - to know the microeconomic reason for government (state) interference on the market; to understand the essence of allocation, redistributive, legislative and regulatory function of state; to know what the terms public goods, externalities and so on means;
- 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. 7. lecture: imperfect competition, its its characteristic and signs, short run and long run firm equilibrium in imperfect competition dead weight loss in imperfect competition, monopolistic competition and oligopoly. 8. lecture: monopoly, kinds and reason of monopoly, the harmful effects of monopoly. 9. 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. 11. lecture: general equilibrium theory – equilibrium in production, production possibility frontier, equilibrium in consumption, 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 present form of the study, consultations on the distant form of the study.
- 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 acquire the credit if (s)he pass two credit tests. Each question in the tests are scored, student have to receive minimum score to pass the test. The exam is verbal. The exam question are published in IS (information system) with minimal exam standards (the minimum knowledge that student must know to be able to pass the exam).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
General note: Bb1.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2012, recent)
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