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IPLUSO 712

Microeconomics

Business Management and E-Commerce
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    This curricular unit aims to provide students with fundamental and solid knowledge about microeconomics, namely about the determinants of a product's market equilibrium price and quantity, the laws of demand and supply, the effects of demand and supply on the equilibrium price and quantity in a competitive market, as well as the role of the State in shaping family well-being. Consumer, producer and cost theories, as well as general notions about market restructuring, will be an integral part of the subjects to be covered in this teaching unit.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    Description of contents The fundamentals of economics: macroeconomics and microeconomics; The opportunity cost The study of market equilibrium: the law of demand and supply and the Marshallian cross; Consumer theory: The conditions of consumer equilibrium; The producer theory. The producer's balance; The theory of costs. The short and the long term. General notions of market structures.
  • ObjectivosObjectives
    Objectives: Teach basic and fundamental concepts and relationships of microeconomics with a view to providing students with the acquisition of knowledge for their application in solving concrete problems in both practical and theoretical terms at a microeconomic level. It is also intended to provide students with a critical spirit in relation to microeconomic problems and the ability to analyze and discuss the most basic and also relevant problems. It is intended, on the part of the students, to be open to scientific knowledge and demonstrate general knowledge about economic concepts.
  • BibliografiaBibliography
    Pinho, Micaela. Micro Economia. 3ª Edição. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo, 2016. Santos, António e Ribeiro, Sandra. Micro Economia. 1ª Edição. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo, 2017. Textos fornecidos pelo professor.
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    Classes are essentially practical, preceded by a theoretical introduction to solving practical cases. General knowledge of the subject is taught with a view to a good learning of the subjects to solve the exercises on microeconomics. At the same time, students will be provided with the analysis and discussion of concrete and relevant microeconomic situations of our day.
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    5
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não