731104 Fundamentals of economics I

Type
Lecture
Semester hours
2
Lecturer (assistant)
Weinberger, Theresa , Morawetz, Ulrich , Eder, Andreas
Organisation
Offered in
Wintersemester 2024/25
Languages of instruction
Deutsch
Content

- Economic process (Resource, Production, goods and services, economic key problems, actors, types of markets, income flows and identities, System of National Accounts)


- Resources and Output (Production possibility frontier, efficiency, tradeoffs, opportunity cost, optimal allocation, comparative advantage, transaction cost, distributional and stability aspects, coordinating principles)


- Trade (motives for trade, absolute vs. comparative advantage, distributions of gains from trade, practical aspects of trade, trade without comparative advantage)


- Firm and Household (basic elements of production theory and cost theory, profit maximization, competition vs. monopoly, consumption and budgets, utility maximization, selected policy instruments, ...)


- Price System (basic determinants of supply and demand, functional forms, aggregation problems, market equilibrium, competition, price system, elasticities, selected case studies)
Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

- Calculate and graphically determine, among other things, opporunity costs, comparative cost advantages, market equilibria elasticities, optimal behavior of market participants, and socially optimal behavior in the presence of externalities.
- Graphical representation and interpretation of production, cost, and profit functions
- Define and logically apply central concepts of economics
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