OPF:EKPMIAA Microeconomics A - Course Information
EKPMIAA Microeconomics A
School of Business Administration in KarvinaWinter 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 3/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Mgr. Ing. Michal Tvrdoň, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Ing. Michal Tvrdoň, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. Mgr. Ing. Michal Tvrdoň, Ph.D.
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The course objective is to teach the students the methodology and the principles of general economics. The course acquaints students with the basic theoretical pieces of knowledge of microeconomics. Fundamental sense has a theory of effective exploitation of scarcity resources for the production of useful goods and services inclusive their dividing. The course includes interpretation of the essential market categories, analyze of behavior of the basic economical subjects namely at first on the market of the goods and services with that on factor markets, their reciprocal relations and expectations of efficient functioning. In virtue of acquire of principles of economic science - microeconomics - leads to the creating of the essential economic profile of all students of The School of Business Administration. At the same time it is the base of the university education of further economic courses on the bachelor's study.
- Syllabus
- 1. Preface to economics, the basic economic conceptions
2. Market - its basic elements and the market mechanism
3. Customer behavior and the formalization of demand
4. Firm behavior and the formalization of supply
5. The theory of general equilibrium
6. Revenues, costs and firm profit
7. Firm equilibrium in the perfect competition
8. Firm behavior in the imperfect competition - monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition
9. Factor markets - land market
10. Labor market
11. Capital market
12. Market failure and microeconomic state policy
13. Public choice theory
- 1. Preface to economics, the basic economic conceptions
- Literature
- required literature
- CASE, K.E., FAIR, R.C. Principles of Microeconomics. New York, 1992. ISBN 0-13-585209-9. info
- recommended literature
- VARIAN, H. R. Intermediate Microeconomics. A Modern approach. New York, 1993. ISBN 0-393-96320-9. info
- SALVATORE, D. Microeconomics. New York, 1991. ISBN 0-06-045704-X. info
- NICHOLSON, W. Intermediate Microeconomics and its Application. New Persey, 1990. ISBN 0-03-031392-9. info
- Teaching methods
- Skills demonstration
- Assessment methods
- Grade
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- The precondition for achievement of credit shall be the compulsory attendance to seminars within the scope of 60% and succesful completion of the current test during lectures.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2012, recent)
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