CURRENT COURSES

ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (9 CFU) (in English)
Degree: International Business and Development – University of Parma
Semester: Spring
Offered: a.a. 2024-2025
What is an innovation? How can we measure it? What are its causes and consequences for the economy and society? The course will provide the students with the concepts and tools needed to address these questions, placing particular attention on the interplay between innovation processes and different dimensions of social and environmental sustainability. The course will be divided in three parts: the first part will introduce the basic concepts, definitions and theories of innovation; the second part will discuss the role of innovation and technological change in the process of addressing key social challenges related to climate change and uncertain labour prospects; the third part will take a broader social and economic perspective and discuss systemic approaches to innovation, with a particular focus on the role of public policy.

ECONOMICS FOR MANAGEMENT (7 CFU) (in English)
Degree: Trade and Consumer Marketing – University of Parma
Semester: Spring
Offered: a.a. 2024-2025
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the recent literature in behavioral economics, with a specific attention on how social preferences affects managerial decisions. The lectures will explore how psychology and economics have been integrated to better understand how people respond to incentives and organizational practices. The second part of the module will focus on applications of behavioral economics to specific fields of study such as economics of innovation and entrepreneurship.

PAST COURSES

MICROECONOMICS (D-J) (10 CFU) (in Italian)
Degree: Economia e Management – University of Parma
Semester: Spring
Offered: a.a. 2016-2017; a.a. 2017-2018; a.a. 2018-2019; a.a. 2019-2020; a.a. 2020-2021; a.a. 2021-20222.; a.a. 2022-2023; a.a. 2023-2024.
This course aims to provide students with the basics of the microeconomic theory (market, demand and supply, consumer theory) and an understanding of the differences among the main forms of market (perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly). At the end of the course, the student should be able to: analyze, understand, and explain the main economic concepts and events, such as, for example, the equilibrium market, the dynamics of market prices, and the cost of doing business; express an opinion concerning the events and/or situations related to the economic system and the choices of consumers and firms; attend an interview on economic issues (concepts, definitions, implications) with professionals and/or public sector operators; use the microeconomic analytical techniques, with particular reference to the basic mathematical formulas and graphs corresponding to the main models of the theory.

BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS (7 CFU) (in English)
Degree: Trade and Consumer Marketing – University of Parma
Semester: Spring
Offered: a.a. 2022-20223
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the recent literature in behavioural economics, with a specific attention on how social preferences, norms and individual biases influence choices both at consumer and firm level. The lectures will explore how psychology and economics have been integrated to better understand how people respond to risk, make choices, and interact with others. The second part of the module will focus on strategic interactions and how people learn about their environment and the actions of others.

ECONOMICS OF GLOBALISATION (II module) (8 CFU) (in English)
Degree: Economia e Management – University of Parma
Semester: Spring
Offered: a.a. 2016-2017; a.a. 2017-2018; a.a. 2018-2019; a.a. 2019-2020; a.a. 2020-2021; a.a. 2021-20222.
This course aims to provide students the basics of the international economic theory and the determinants of the evolution of international trade and multinational corporations. At the end of the course, the student should be able to: analyze, understand, and explain the determinants of growth and decline of the main economic variables at a world-wide level;explain the effects of international trade on the economy; express an opinion concerning how the most important economic policy authorities (governments and the international economic institutions) can affect the main economic variables in the aim of increasing economic welfare worldwide; understand the history, the functioning and the importance of multinational corporations; obtain the tools required to understand and elaborate the main economic statistics at a world-wide level; attend an interview on economic issues (concepts, definitions, implications) with professionals and/or public sector operators; use the techniques of analysis of macroeconomics and microeconomics, in order to briefly explain complex issues by means of economic data, charts and analytical formulae.

MICROECONOMICS (8 CFU) (in Italian and English)
Degree: Politics, Philosophy and Economics & Economia e Management – LUISS University
Semester: Fall & Spring
Offered: a.a. 2015-2016, a.a. 2016-2017.
The aim of the course is to provide students the basic elements of microeconomic theory. The first part of the course will be devoted to the analysis of the theories of consumers’ and firms’ decisions. These theories are the building blocks of the theories of equilibrium in perfectly and imperfectly competitive markets, which will be explored in the second part of the course. The third part of the course will be devoted to the analysis of relatively more complex issues, such as economic efficiency and welfare, and the analysis of externalities and public goods. There will be an emphasis on applications of microeconomic theory to real world contexts and problems.