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FRONZETTI COLLADON ANDREA
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1. Course introduction. Cash flow diagrams. Financing and Investments. Inflation.
Projects and Investment alternatives.Time value of money.
Interest rate, interest earned. Opportunity cost.
2. Simple interest. Compound interest. Excercises.
3. Compound and Simple interest: A graphical comparison.
Nominal and effective interest rates. Exercises.Cash Flows Equivalence.
4. Cash Flows Equivalence: formulas and factors. Excercises. Bases for comparison of alternatives. Present Worth.
5. Present Worth. Future Worth. Future Worht and Present Worth with simple interest. Exercises.
6. Annual Equivalent. Future Worht, Annual Equivalent and Present Worth: a comparison.
Payback Period. Exercises.
7. Incremental Investment.Exercises.
8. Exercises (interest and related formuals). Introduction to IRR.
9. Internal rate of return.
MARR. Cost of capital. Computation of the Internal Rate of Return. Financing: IRR, PW, FW. Exercises.
10. Alternatives with unequal lives (case I, II and III). Alternative A0. Project Balance. Exercises.
11. Advanced Exercises (part1).
12. Innovation, new projects and development of alternatives (part 1)
13. Advanced Exercises (part2).
14. Innovation, new projects and development of alternatives (part 2)
15. Advanced Exercises (part3).
16. Innovation, new projects and development of alternatives (part 3)
17. Preliminaries on Micro- and Macroeconomics. Real vs nominal prices. Consumer and producer price indexes.
Supply and Demand curves. The Reserve Price.
18. Limits of the GDP. Shifting of Supply and Demand curves. The Market Mechanism. Market Clearing Price.
Price Elasticity of Demand.
19. No Class - National Holiday
20. Elasticities of Supply and Demand. Point, arc and cross-price elasticities. Other elasticities.
21. World oil market example. Exercises.
22. Long-run and Short-run elasticities. Exercises. Consumer behaviour and preferences.
23. Indifference curves. Perfect complements and substitutes. Marginal rate of substitution. Regular preferences. Exercises.
24. Utility and utility functions. Exercises. Marginal Utility. Utility functions (also for perfect complements and substitutes).
25. Almost linear preferences. Exercises. Budget line. Changes in income and prices. Consumer choice and maximization of consumer satisfaction.
26. Consumer choice in the case of perfect complements and substitutes. Exercises.
27. Production. The production function. Average and marginal products. Isoquants. Production in the short and long run. Marginal rate of technical substitution.
28. Costs of production in the long and short run. Shapes of the cost curves. Isocost curves. Choice of optimum inputs. Exercises.
29. Advanced exercises.
 Pindyck, R., & Rubinfeld, D. Microeconomics (7th ed. or newer). Prentice Hall International.
Thuesen, G. J., & Fabrycky, W. J. Engineering Economy (9th ed.). Prentice Hall International.
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