- Teacher: GIUSEPPE RAGUSA
- co-docente: LAURA MAGAZZINI
- Teacher: DAVIDE FIASCHI
- co-docente: FRANCESCO LAMPERTI
- co-docente: ANDREA ROVENTINI
Students are expected to acquire - the tools and concepts to understand and represent individual behaviour both as consumption units, investors and firms, in certain, uncertain and strategic environments - the tools and concepts to understand and represent the working of single markets, in conditions of perfect and imperfect competition and the basic tools for intervention and regulation - the tools and concepts to understand and interpret the working of the whole economy, its properties and limitations - ability to solve problems conceerning individual and market behaviour - critical and selective capacity to apply the above tools to analyze, interpret and represent real phenomena from the microeconomic point of view - ability to autonomously read and understand advanced textbooks and academic articles at the frontier of economic literature in the field of microeconomics.
The student will be assessed on - his/her demonstrated ability to discuss the main course contents using appropriate terminology, proper concepts and rigorous thinking. - his/her demonstrated ability to solve simple problems concerning the main contents of the course, applying the appropriate tools.
The student will be assessed on - his/her demonstrated ability to discuss the main course contents using appropriate terminology, proper concepts and rigorous thinking. - his/her demonstrated ability to solve simple problems concerning the main contents of the course, applying the appropriate tools.
- Teacher: PAOLO SCAPPARONE
- co-docente: PIER MARIO PACINI
- co-docente: NERI SALVADORI
- Teacher: PIETRO ANGELO MANFREDO MANFREDI
- co-docente: CATERINA GIUSTI
- co-docente: ENRICO LUPI
- Teacher: NICOLA SALVATI
- Teacher: FRANCESCO SCHIRRIPA SPAGNOLO
General course idea:
Since we are facing unprecedented sustainability challenges, several calls have been made to rethink or re-imagine capitalism. Contemporary
world complexities include climate change, tax avoidance, pandemics, pollution, modern slavery, economic and social inequalities, sustainability
challenges at large. This course's key aim is to constitute a "wakening call" for students on the need to address grand sustainability challenges
in their future jobs as regulators, policy makers, analysts, managers etc.
The teaching style is topic-based, case-based, participatory and project oriented. Students taking this course should not see themselves as
mere "absorbers" of codified concepts, but as living and thinking individuals, who will have to take complex business decisions and who are
expected to learn, discuss and face the paradoxes and tensions that are inherent when business decisions have to be taken in highly uncertain
and risky environments like the ones we are currently living in.
Required Readings:
All materials will be available on the E-learning course website..
Participants will be expected to keep abreast of contemporary developments in corporate social and environmental responsibilities, business
and human rights, sustainability challenges by reading the relevant press (e.g. The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Foreign
Affairs) and other newspapers or journals.
Course Description:
Core topics
Shareholder value maximization vs. stakeholder theory
Corporate wrongdoing and corporate social responsibility
New business models for a more responsible capitalism
Business and human rights
Special topics
Economic inequality and tax evasion
Finance and climate change/Responsible Investing
Migrants and modern slavery
Food waste
Responsible innovation and circular economy
EU Green Deal for a toxic free environment
Since we are facing unprecedented sustainability challenges, several calls have been made to rethink or re-imagine capitalism. Contemporary
world complexities include climate change, tax avoidance, pandemics, pollution, modern slavery, economic and social inequalities, sustainability
challenges at large. This course's key aim is to constitute a "wakening call" for students on the need to address grand sustainability challenges
in their future jobs as regulators, policy makers, analysts, managers etc.
The teaching style is topic-based, case-based, participatory and project oriented. Students taking this course should not see themselves as
mere "absorbers" of codified concepts, but as living and thinking individuals, who will have to take complex business decisions and who are
expected to learn, discuss and face the paradoxes and tensions that are inherent when business decisions have to be taken in highly uncertain
and risky environments like the ones we are currently living in.
Required Readings:
All materials will be available on the E-learning course website..
Participants will be expected to keep abreast of contemporary developments in corporate social and environmental responsibilities, business
and human rights, sustainability challenges by reading the relevant press (e.g. The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Foreign
Affairs) and other newspapers or journals.
Course Description:
Core topics
Shareholder value maximization vs. stakeholder theory
Corporate wrongdoing and corporate social responsibility
New business models for a more responsible capitalism
Business and human rights
Special topics
Economic inequality and tax evasion
Finance and climate change/Responsible Investing
Migrants and modern slavery
Food waste
Responsible innovation and circular economy
EU Green Deal for a toxic free environment
- Teacher: ELISA GIULIANI
- co-docente: GIANLUCA BIGGI
- co-docente: VERDIANA MORREALE
The course provides the basic elements of Value, Capital, Growth and Accumulation within Classical and Post-Keynesian Economics.
The course will be held partially on a seminar basis. Students will be evaluated also on the basis of their presentation to seminars, but the issues dealt with on a seminar basis will not be compulsory even if the students who have not delivered a talk in a seminar have to choose a number of issues for the exam.
Students must be familiar with the standard tools of microeconomics, elementary algebra, and elementary mathematical analysis. Some knowledge of models of economic growth is recommended, but is not required.
Students will be evaluated also on the basis of their presentation to seminars, but the issues dealt with on a seminar basis will not be compulsory even if the students who have not delivered a talk in a seminar have to choose a number of issues for the exam. The compulsory part includes: pricing; income distribution (wages, profits and rent); theory of growth of a closed economy, of a small open economy, of the world economy both for Classical and Post-Keynesian Economics.
Syllabus
Ricardo Theory of Growth and Accumulation: The one-sector model; The two-sector model; The small open economy; The Wold Economy.
Theory of Production: Production with capital and labour without land; Capital theory and criticism of Neo-Classical theory of distribution.
Post-Keynesian Theory of Growth and Distribution: Origin; Dual and Neo-Pasinetti Theorems; Existence of a Two-class economy; Public Sector and International Trade.
Bibliography
Neri Salvadori, Ricardo’s theory of growth and accumulation. A modern view, London: Routledge, 2020.
Kurz, H.D. & Salvadori, N. (2001) Production Theory: An Introduction”, Indian Economic Journal, 2001. Reprinted in Kurz, H.D. & Salvadori, N. (2003). Classical Economics and Modern Theory: Studies in Long-period Analysis, London and New York: Routledge; pp. 238-255.
Kurz, D. H. and N. Salvadori, Theory of production, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Chapters 2, 3, and 14.
Panico C. & Salvadori, N. (a cura di) (1993), Post Keynesian Theory of Growth and Distribution, Aldershot (U.K.): Edward Elgar.
Commendatore P., S D'Acunto, C Panico (2003), Keynesian Theories Of Growth, in N. Salvadori (a cura di) The Theory of Economic Growth: A ‘Classical’ Perspective. Cheltenham (U.K.): Edward Elgar; pp. 103-160.
Assessment methods
The students who have delivered a seminar within the course will be evaluated on the basis of their performance plus a short exam on the part of the course which is taught though traditional lectures by the professor. The students who have NOT delivered a seminar within the course will be evaluated on the basis of a longer exam with the addition of two further issues to be chosen by the students from an issue topic pool.
The course will be held partially on a seminar basis. Students will be evaluated also on the basis of their presentation to seminars, but the issues dealt with on a seminar basis will not be compulsory even if the students who have not delivered a talk in a seminar have to choose a number of issues for the exam.
Students must be familiar with the standard tools of microeconomics, elementary algebra, and elementary mathematical analysis. Some knowledge of models of economic growth is recommended, but is not required.
Students will be evaluated also on the basis of their presentation to seminars, but the issues dealt with on a seminar basis will not be compulsory even if the students who have not delivered a talk in a seminar have to choose a number of issues for the exam. The compulsory part includes: pricing; income distribution (wages, profits and rent); theory of growth of a closed economy, of a small open economy, of the world economy both for Classical and Post-Keynesian Economics.
Syllabus
Ricardo Theory of Growth and Accumulation: The one-sector model; The two-sector model; The small open economy; The Wold Economy.
Theory of Production: Production with capital and labour without land; Capital theory and criticism of Neo-Classical theory of distribution.
Post-Keynesian Theory of Growth and Distribution: Origin; Dual and Neo-Pasinetti Theorems; Existence of a Two-class economy; Public Sector and International Trade.
Bibliography
Neri Salvadori, Ricardo’s theory of growth and accumulation. A modern view, London: Routledge, 2020.
Kurz, H.D. & Salvadori, N. (2001) Production Theory: An Introduction”, Indian Economic Journal, 2001. Reprinted in Kurz, H.D. & Salvadori, N. (2003). Classical Economics and Modern Theory: Studies in Long-period Analysis, London and New York: Routledge; pp. 238-255.
Kurz, D. H. and N. Salvadori, Theory of production, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Chapters 2, 3, and 14.
Panico C. & Salvadori, N. (a cura di) (1993), Post Keynesian Theory of Growth and Distribution, Aldershot (U.K.): Edward Elgar.
Commendatore P., S D'Acunto, C Panico (2003), Keynesian Theories Of Growth, in N. Salvadori (a cura di) The Theory of Economic Growth: A ‘Classical’ Perspective. Cheltenham (U.K.): Edward Elgar; pp. 103-160.
Assessment methods
The students who have delivered a seminar within the course will be evaluated on the basis of their performance plus a short exam on the part of the course which is taught though traditional lectures by the professor. The students who have NOT delivered a seminar within the course will be evaluated on the basis of a longer exam with the addition of two further issues to be chosen by the students from an issue topic pool.
- Teacher: NERI SALVADORI
- Teacher: GIORGIO FAGIOLO
- co-docente: MATTEO CORONESE
- co-docente: ANDREA ROVENTINI
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the main topics of economic methodology, linking philosophical issues with practical problems that economists face in the confrontation of models with data. The course focuses on forms of explanation in economics; foundational issues of probability, statistical and causal inference; the role of models and their appraisal; issues in decision theory and the methodology of experimental economics
- Teacher: ALESSIO MONETA
- co-docente: PIETRO GUARNIERI
- Teacher: POMPEO DELLA POSTA
- co-docente: DAVIDE FIASCHI
Lecturer: MARTINELLI Arianna, TAMAGNI Federico
ECTS: 6
Description:
The course introduces to recent developments in theory and empirics of firm dynamics and to its interplay with innovation patterns in shaping aggregate outcomes such as growth and productivity. The course has a strong applied focus, providing students with solid knowledge of the empirical evidence concerning key firm-level characteristics (size, growth, productivity and innovation) and industry-level dynamics, with the final aim to develop an informed view about the ability of theories to match with stylised facts.
Course outline:
1. The dynamics of firm productivity: empirics and stylised facts
2. Firm size and firm growth: empirics and stylised facts
3. The role of entry, exit and firm age in industry dynamics
4. Firm heterogeneity and firm-industry dynamics: review of alternative theories
5. Productivity, firm growth and industrial dynamics: empirics of market selection
6. Measuring innovative activity of firms
7. Sectoral patterns of innovation
8. Innovation and firm-growth
Textbooks: lecture notes and reading list to be provided in class
Final evaluation: oral examination
IMPORTANT: LECTURES ARE SCHEDULED IN PRESENCE @SCUOLA SANT'ANNA. BLENDED OR FULL REMOTE TEACHING WILL THEN FOLLOW, DEPENDING ON EVOLUTION OF COVID-19 EMERGENCY.
ALL STUDENTS INTERESTED IN THIS COURSE PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO: federico.tamagni@santannapisa.it
FOR UPDATED CALENDAR of CLASSES see:
http://mse.ec.unipi.it/courses/second-year/
ECTS: 6
Description:
The course introduces to recent developments in theory and empirics of firm dynamics and to its interplay with innovation patterns in shaping aggregate outcomes such as growth and productivity. The course has a strong applied focus, providing students with solid knowledge of the empirical evidence concerning key firm-level characteristics (size, growth, productivity and innovation) and industry-level dynamics, with the final aim to develop an informed view about the ability of theories to match with stylised facts.
Course outline:
1. The dynamics of firm productivity: empirics and stylised facts
2. Firm size and firm growth: empirics and stylised facts
3. The role of entry, exit and firm age in industry dynamics
4. Firm heterogeneity and firm-industry dynamics: review of alternative theories
5. Productivity, firm growth and industrial dynamics: empirics of market selection
6. Measuring innovative activity of firms
7. Sectoral patterns of innovation
8. Innovation and firm-growth
Textbooks: lecture notes and reading list to be provided in class
Final evaluation: oral examination
IMPORTANT: LECTURES ARE SCHEDULED IN PRESENCE @SCUOLA SANT'ANNA. BLENDED OR FULL REMOTE TEACHING WILL THEN FOLLOW, DEPENDING ON EVOLUTION OF COVID-19 EMERGENCY.
ALL STUDENTS INTERESTED IN THIS COURSE PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO: federico.tamagni@santannapisa.it
FOR UPDATED CALENDAR of CLASSES see:
http://mse.ec.unipi.it/courses/second-year/
- Teacher: FEDERICO TAMAGNI
- co-docente: ARIANNA MARTINELLI
- Teacher: LORENZO CORSINI
- co-docente: André GASPAR CIEPLINSKI
- co-docente: NICOLA MECCHERI
- Teacher: LAURA CAROSI
- Teacher: FEDERICO MAGLIONE
- Teacher: DAVIDE RADI
- Teacher: CRISTIANO RICCI
- co-docente: ANDREA CARAVAGGIO
- Teacher: MONICA PRATESI
- co-docente: LUCA FAUSTINI
- co-docente: LINDA PORCIANI