Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

the teaching notes are articulated into the following seven chapters:

– Chapter I. Economic problem, organizations and aziende;
– Chapter II. Value creation in business and non-business entities;
– Chapter III. Conflicts with the primary interest of the economic entity;
– Chapter IV. The activity of business entities through circuits;
– Chapter V. Legal forms of business entities;
– Chapter VI. Organizational structure;
– Chapter VII. Strategies.

– Special content: Criminal organizations

- Teaching notes of the course (available on-line)
- Slides projected during the course
- Suggested articles

The programme is organised as follows:

Economic activities and different types of organization;
Globalization and National cultures;
Planning and strategy;
Organizational structure, teamwork and leadership;
Introduction to management control;
Introduction to cost accounting;
Introduction to responsibility accounting;
Introduction to financial accounting;
Introduction to social responsibility.

Teaching notes and lectures suggested by the professor.
For each argument there will be the possibility to have the slides, projected in classroom and other types of didactic material.

Part A

Set theory. Set Operations: union intersection, difference, complement, Cartesian product. Number sets. Intervals. Powers with rational and real exponents. Interior, exterior and accumulation points. Maximum, minimum, inferior and supremum. Funcions: domain, range, image. Injective and surjective functions. Inverse function.

Part B

Real valued functions: linear, quadratic and polynomial functions. Exponential, Logarithmic and Trigonometric functions. Monotonic functions. Convex and concave functions. Economic applications.

Part C

Sequences, limits, power series. Economic applications

Part D

Limit of a function: definition and main theorems. Asymptotes. Continuity: definition and main theorems.

Part E

Derivative. Main theorems on differential functions: Rolle, Lagrange, De Hopital. Complete study of a function: sktech graph. Taylor's polynomial. Economic applications

Text: C.P Simon and L. Blume. Mathematics for Economists. Norton & Company
On the web site of the course there will be available:
Weekly exercises
The classworks proposed weekly by the tutors
A sample of self evaluation test

Issues of methods in legal studies
The Legal Systems: Civil and Common Law
Origins and features of the Nation-State
International Public Law
The Constitutional State: sources of law
Patterns of constitutional review of the legislation
Forms of government
Federalism and regionalism
Legal orders relationships: a) the European Union legal system
Legal orders relationships: b) the European Convention of Human Rights
Legal orders relationships: c) the Global arena
Fundamental rights and freedoms (I)
Fundamental rights and freedoms (II)
Administrative law and administrative agencies: a) rule of law
Administrative law and administrative agencies: b) administrative proceedings Remedies
The budgetary power between States and the EU
The regulatory State

Required readings
Required readings will be available to students through the course website, after the beginning of the course. The list will be constantly updated by the lecturers.
Readings
- Slides and readings provided by the teacher;
- Case law provided by the teacher;
- One between the following textbook:
a) Textbook of Public Law (edited by F. Fracchia), Editoriale scientifica, Napoli, 2014, only the paragraphs as follows:
Introduction
Part I § 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9;
Part II § 10,11,12,13,14;
Part III § 15,16,17,18,19, 23,24,25;
Part IV § 28,29,30,31, 33,34;
Part V § 35,36, 37,40,42;
b) Introduction to Italian public law (edited by G.F. Ferrari), Giuffrè, Milano 2008, only the paragraphs as follows:
Chapter I § 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Chapter II § 1, 2, 3, 4;
Chapter III § 1, 2, 3, 4;
Chapter IV § 1, 2, 3, 4, 8;
Chapter V § 1, 2, 3;
Chapter VI § 1, 2, 3, 4;
Chapter VIII § 1, 2, 3, 4;
Chapter IX § 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Chapter X § 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Chapter XI § 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Chapter XIII § 1, 2, 3;
Chapter XIV § 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Other Suggested readings (not compulsory)
Introduction to Italian Law (edited by Jeffrey S. Lena, Ugo Mattei), Kluwer Law International, 2004
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, (edited by M. Rosenfeld e A. Sajò), Oxford, 2012

The course will mostly focus its attention on the following teaching areas:

1. Management: Science, Theory, and Practice
2. Management and Society: The External Environment, Social Responsibility, and Ethics
3. Global, Comparative, and Quality Management
4. Essentials of Planning and Managing by Objectives
5. Strategies, Policies and Planning Premises
6. Decision Making
7. The Nature of Organizing, Entrepreneuring, and Reenginering
8. Managing Change through Manager and Organizational Development
9. Leadership
10. The System and Process of Controlling
11. Control Techniques and Information Technology
12. Productivity, Operations Management, and Total Quality Management

Abatecola, G. (2014), "Untangling Self-Reinforcing Processes in Managerial Decision Making. Co-Evolving Heuristics?", Management Decision, 52(5), pp. 934-949.

Cafferata, R. (2016), "Darwinist Connections between the Systemness of Social Organizations and their Evolution", Journal of Management and Governance, 20(1), pp. 19-44.

Koontz, H. Weihrich, H. (2017), Essentials of Management. An International, Innovation, and Leadership Perspective (tenth edition), McGraw-Hill Custom Publishing.

Syllabus

Demand and Supply Analysis
Consumer Preferences and the Concept of Utility
The Theory of Demand
Inputs and Production Functions
Costs and Cost Minimization
Cost Curves
Perfectly Competitive Markets
Competitive Markets: Applications
Monopoly
Externalities and Public Goods
General Competitive Equilibrium

Extended Syllabus

Analyzing Economic Problems
1.1 Why Study Microeconomics?
1.2 Three Key Analytical Tools
1.3 Positive and Normative Analysis
Demand and Supply Analysis
2.1 Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium
2.2 Price Elasticity of Demand
2.3 Other Elasticities
2.4 Elasticity in the Long Run versus the Short Run
Consumer Preferences and the Concept of Utility
3.1 Representations of Preferences
3.2 Utility Functions
3.3 Special Preferences
Consumer Choice
4.1 The Budget Constraint
4.2 Optimal Choice
4.3 Borrowing and Lending
The Theory of Demand
5.1 Optimal Choice and Demand
5.2 Change in the Price of a Good: Substitution Effect and Income Effect
5.3 Change in the Price of a Good: The Concept of Consumer Surplus
5.4 Market Demand
5.5 The Choice of Labor and Leisure
Inputs and Production Functions
6.1 Introduction to Inputs and Production Functions
6.2 Production Functions with a Single Input
6.3 Production Functions with More Than One Input
6.4 Substitutability Among Inputs
6.5 Returns to Scale
6.6 Technological Progress
Costs and Cost Minimization
7.1 Cost Concepts for Decision Making
7.2 The Cost-Minimization Problem
7.3 Comparative Statics Analysis of the Cost-Minimization Problem
7.4 Short-Run Cost Minimization
Cost Curves
8.1 Long-Run Cost Curves
8.2 Short-Run Cost Curves
Perfectly Competitive Markets
9.1 What Is Perfect Competition?
9.2 Profit Maximization by a Price-Taking Firm
9.3 How the Market Price Is Determined: Short-Run Equilibrium
9.4 How the Market Price Is Determined: Long-Run Equilibrium
9.5 Economic Rent and Producer Surplus
Competitive Markets: Applications
10.1 The Invisible Hand, Excise Taxes, and Subsidies
Monopoly
11.1 Profit Maximization by a Monopolist
11.2 The Importance of Price Elasticity of Demand
11.3 Comparative Statics for Monopolists
11.5 The Welfare Economics of Monopoly
11.6 Why Do Monopoly Markets Exist?
Risk and Information
15.1 Describing Risky Outcomesn
15.2 Evaluating Risky Outcomesn
15.3 Bearing and Eliminating Riskn
Externalities and Public Goods
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Externalities
17.3 Public Goods
General Economic Equilibrium
A. Pure Exchenge Economies
B. Production Economies
C. Welfare Theorems

Main Textbook

D. Besanko and R. Braeutigam, Microeconomics (Fifth Edition), Wiley

Additional reference

H. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (any edition), W.W. Norton & Company

Week 1 – Descriptive Statistics
Class 1 – Introduction to Statistics - Types of data and levels of measurement:
Quantitative and Qualitative Characters.
Class 2 – Presenting Data in Tables: (numerical data and categorical data)-
Frequency Distribution. Measuring central tendency: mode, arithmetic mean,
median
Class 3 - Measuring variation: quartiles, range, inter-quartile range, variance,
st.dev.. Comparing the mean and the median, shape of the distribution
Week 2 – Descriptive Statistics
Class 1 - Presenting data graphically: pie charts, bar graphs, histograms, boxplot
Class 2 - Dependence: tabulating and graphing bivariate categorical data -
Analysis and Measuring Association among categorical characters
Class 3 - Measuring association among quantitative characters- Covariance and
Correlation coefficient.
Week 3 – Probability and Random Variables
Class 1- Class Basic Probability concepts - Axioms of Probability-Probability
Rules - Conditional Probability -Independence-Bayes Theorem
Class 2 - Random Variables: Discrete and Continuous - Expectation of a Random
Variable
Class 3 - Bernoulli and Binomial Random variables. The Normal distribution
Week 4 – Inferential Statistics
Class 1 - Statistical inference - Population versus sample - Simple random
samples- Sampling experiments and sampling distributions. Point estimation-
Properties of point estimates: bias and variability
Class 2 – Interval estimation. Confidence intervals for a population mean
Class 3 - Confidence intervals for a proportion. Choosing the Sample Size for a
Study. Using Computers to Make New Estimation Methods Possible
Week 5 – Hypothesis Testing
Class 1 - Hypothesis Testing. Decisions and Types of Errors in Significance
Tests. Hypothesis Testing for Population mean (population variance known)
Class 2 – Hypothesis Testing for Population mean (large sample). Limitations of
Significance Tests
Class 3 - Comparing two groups
Week 6 – Analyzing the Association Between Categorical Variables
Class 1 - Independence and Association. Testing Categorical Variables for
Independence. Determining the Strength of the Association
Class 2 - Small Sample Sizes: Fisher’s Exact Test
Class 3 – Linear regression analysis. Using Residuals to Reveal the Pattern of
Association

The main textbook is
Alan Agresti and Christine Franklin(2013), The Art and Science of Learning from
Data, 3/E –Pearson
Additional material will be available on the course’s website.

Game Theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interactions among rational agents. Some examples of such interactions are competition among firms, conflicts among nations, trading behavior in stock markets. The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, normal and extensive forms, complete and incomplete
information settings, some notions of repeated games. It will use a variety of examples to illustrate the main concepts and some classical economic applications.
Detailed programme for Game Theory
• Static games of complete informations: Dominant strategies and Nash equilibrium. Applications: Cournot Oligopoly, Bertrand duopoly. Mixed strategy equilibria. Existence of a Nash equilibrium.
• Static games of incomplete information: Bayes-Nash equilibrium. Applications: Cournot competition with incomplete information., Auction, Bank runs.
• Dynamic game with complete information: extensive form, backward induction. Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium. Applications: Stackelberg duopoly, entry games, Rubinstein bargaining game. Basic notions of Repeated games.
• Dynamic games with incomplete information. Introduction to Perfect Bayesian equilibrium. Signaling games.

Gibbons R. “A Primer in Game Theory”, 1992, Prentice Hall
Additional readings suggested by the lecturer

1. The pre-industrial economy and the Malthusian growth model
2. Britain’s Industrial Revolution
3. The First Globalization
3.1. International trade and the Ricardian model
3.2. The age of mass migration
3.3. International capital flows
3.4. The Heckscher-Ohlin model
3.5. The International Monetary System
4. WWI – The War Economy and the Economic Consequences of the Peace
5. The International Economy between the WW: the Great Depression
6. WWII: Bretton Woods and the Marshall plan
7. Europe’s Golden Age (1950-1973)
8. From oil shocks to the present day
9. Two Centuries of inequality and poverty around the world

1.A Deaton, A. (2014), The Great Escape, Princeton University Press. (Chapter 2)

1.B Clark, G. (2008), A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton University Press. (Chapter 2)

2.A A’Hearn, B. (2014) “The British industrial revolution in a European mirror”, in R. Floud, J. Humphries and P. Johnson (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Vol. I: 1700-1870.

2.B Allen, R.C. (2010), “Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution”, Economic History Review.

3.A O’Rourke, K. and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press; Chapter 2

3.B Krugman, P. R., Obstfeld M., and M. Melitz (2014), International Economics: Theory and Policy, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall; Chapter 3 (not compulsory)

4.A O’Rourke, K. and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press; Chapter 6.

5.A O’Rourke, K. and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press; Chapter 11.

6.A O’Rourke, K. and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press; Chapters 1, 3 and 13.

7.A Costa, Dora L. From mill town to board room: the rise of women's paid labor. No. w7608. National bureau of economic research, 2000.

8.A Cameron, R. and L. Neal (2002), A Concise Economic History of the World, From Paleolithic Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 12

8.B Krugman, P. R., Obstfeld M., and M. Melitz (2014), International Economics: Theory and Policy, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall; Chapter 19

9.A Broadberry, S. and M. Harrison (2009), The economics of World War I: an overview. In Broadberry, S. and M. Harrison, eds., The economics of World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

9.B Feinstein, C.H., P. Temin and G. Toniolo (2008), The World Economy between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapters 1 and 2

10.A Feinstein, C.H., P. Temin and G. Toniolo (2008), The World Economy between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapters 3, 4 and 6

10.B Keynes, J.M. (1930), “The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” in Essays in Persuasion. (Ed. 1963), Norton.

11.A Feinstein, C.H., P. Temin and G. Toniolo (2008), The World Economy between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 10

11.B Cameron, R. and L. Neal (2002), A Concise Economic History of the World, From Paleolithic Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 15

12.A Toniolo, G. (1998) “Europe’s golden age, 1950-1973: speculations from a long-run perspective”, Economic History Review, LI, 2: 252-67.

13.A Bourguignon. F. and C. Morrisson 2002. Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820-1992, in American Economic Review, 92, 4, pp. 727-744.

13.B Vecchi (2017), Measuring Wellbeing. A History of Italian Living Standards. New York: Oxford University Press. (selected chapters)

14.A Boyer, George. “English Poor Laws”. EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. May 7, 2002. URL http://eh.net/encyclopedia/english-poor-laws/