Mikroekonomi

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Eduina Maksuti, Msc

Code
CMP 213
Name
Microeconomics
Semester
3
Lecture hours
3.00
Seminar hours
0.00
Laborator hours
1.00
Credits
3.00
ECTS
5.00
Description

This course aims to teach the students the main principles of microeconomics, the functioning of the market mechanism, analysis of demand and supply, elasticity and its practical applications. Besides that, an introduction of the interaction between demand and supply and governmental policies will be taught and also the surplus producer-consumer and the market efficiency. The students will have better knowledge on the basis of the functioning of the public sector economics which includes; public goods and main resources, the establishment of the tax system, the companies' behavior in the various market structures such as competing markets, monopoly, oligopoly and in a more detailed explanation about the labor and capital market.

Objectives

The aim of this course is to teach students the principles and essential methods of the modern microeconomics theory. It also emphasizes the usefulness of those principles, methods and models which serve to study the current problems of microeconomics. They also serve to better understand the economic life and to analyze the consumers’ behavior.

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Tema
1
Ten Principles of Economics Thinking like an economist
2
Thinking like an economist
3
Interdependence and the gains from trade
4
The market forces of supply and demand
5
Elasticity and its application
6
Supply, demand and government policies
7
Consumers, producers and the efficiency of the markets
8
Midterm
9
App. The cost of taxation
10
App. International Trade
11
Externalities
12
Public goods and common resources
13
The design of the tax system
14
Cost of Production
15
Review
16
Final Exam
1
Learning of basic economic concepts
2
Understanding of market concept
3
Decision making in the market by consumers and producers
4
The students gain the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective of economics.
5
They gain the needed skills to express graphically the concepts of supply and demand.
Quantity Percentage Total percent
Midterms
1 35% 35%
Quizzes
0 0% 0%
Projects
0 0% 0%
Term projects
0 0% 0%
Laboratories
0 0% 0%
Class participation
0 0% 0%
Total term evaluation percent
35%
Final exam percent
65%
Total percent
100%
Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
Course duration (including exam weeks)
16 4 64
Off class study hours
14 4 56
Duties
0 0 0
Midterms
1 0 0
Final exam
1 3 3
Other
1 2 2
Total workLoad
125
Total workload / 25 (hours)
5.00
ECTS
5.00