MoTI - Microeconomics
This course is part of the Management of Technology and Innovation suite of courses from the Judge Business School. The purpose of this course of lectures is to provide an introduction to microeconomics and to familiarise students with some basic concepts, tools and models relevant to management and business in general and, where possible, the management of technology and innovation in particular. Topics covered include some basic price theory, the firm, market structure, game theory, transactions costs, market power and externalities.
- Please note that thise course is only available to those in the Graduate School of Life Sciences
- Postgraduates in the Graduate School of Life Sciences
- Researchers in the Graduate School of Life Sciences
Number of sessions: 4
| # | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 8 Oct 2012 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | Jochen Runde |
| 2 | Mon 15 Oct 2012 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | Jochen Runde |
| 3 | Mon 22 Oct 2012 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | Jochen Runde |
| 4 | Mon 29 Oct 2012 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | Jochen Runde |
- Introduction to economics and some elementary price theory
- The firm and market structure
- Game theory and transactions costs
- Market power and externalities
- Conversant with the basic concepts of price theory, costs and profit maximisation
- Able to identify different forms of market structure and understand their different characteristics, efficiency properties, etc.
- Able to construct and solve simple games
- Able to identify possible sources of transactions costs and know something about how to alleviate them
- Understand some sources market failure, externalities and free rider problems
Presentations
Nobody should book on more than any four of the MoTI courses over the academic year because of length of the courses.
When booking on any of the MoTI courses, you must commit to attending all of the sessions in that course (usually four on consecutive weeks). Failure to do so may result in you being prevented from attending future courses and your department and School may be contacted.
Some of the courses run twice, with parallel streams on different days of the week. You must continue to attend the sessions on the day of the week consistent with the day of the course that you booked on to.
Four sessions of two hours
Yearly
Booking / availability