OPF:EKNAMIB Microeconomics - Course Information
EKNAMIB Microeconomics
School of Business Administration in KarvinaWinter 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 3/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Ing. Pavel Tuleja, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Tomáš Verner (lecturer)
Ing. Eva Kotlánová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Dr. Ing. Ingrid Majerová (seminar tutor)
doc. Ing. Jan Nevima, Ph.D., MBA (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Ing. Pavel Tuleja, Ph.D.
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina - Prerequisites
- The completion of the course does not require any conditions and subject can be registered independently of other subjects.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Banking (programme OPF, N_HOSPOL)
- Economy of Enterprise in Trade and Services (programme OPF, N_EKOMAN)
- Managerial Informatics (programme OPF, N_SYSINF)
- Course objectives
- The objective of the course Microeconomics is to develop knowledge that students of master study programs have already acquired during the studying courses where the basis of general economics was taught. The student will be gradually acquainted with the issue of general equilibrium, which includes the theory of rational choice, the consumer demand theory and the issue of production and choice of technologies, income and costs of the firm, the market environment and the behaviour of firms and factor markets. All the efforts of lecturers and seminar lecturers will be focus on a deepening the economic thinking of the students studying at School of Business Administration as well as the mastery of technical tools used in this advanced microeconomics analysis.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to microeconomic theory
2. The theory of rational choice
3. Intertemporal consumer choice
4. Consumer demand theory
5. The choice of technology and production
6. General equilibrium
7. Costs, revenues and profit
8. Firm behaviour in perfectly competitive markets
9. Firm behaviour in monopoly markets
10. The firm in monopolistically competitive market
11. Firm behaviour in oligopolistic market structures
12. Microeconomics aspects of labour market
13. Capital market
- 1. Introduction to microeconomic theory
- Literature
- required literature
- BROWNING, E. K., ZUPAN, M. A. Microeconomics: Theory and Applications. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-67943-1. info
- PERLOFF, J. Microeconomics with Calculus, Global Edition. London: Pearson, 2013. ISBN 978-0-273-78998-7. info
- PINDYCK, R., RUBINFELD, D. Microeconomics. London: Pearson, 2012. ISBN 978-0-133-04170-5. info
- VARIAN, H. R. Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.Inc., 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-93424-3. info
- Teaching methods
- Skills demonstration
Seminar classes - 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
- Attendance in seminars 60%, on-going test, final combined exam (the both parts of exam must be assessed at least E)
Additional tasks: research and study of the literature related to the topic of the intermediate microeconomics.
Activity Difficulty [h] Ostatní studijní zátěž 72 Přednáška 39 Seminář 26 Zkouška 40 Summary 177
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