ECONOMICS OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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Conoscenza e comprensione Vengono illustrati gli strumenti essenziali per analizzare i processi decisionali delle imprese. In particolare, lo studente comprende le nozioni di base relative: • all’analisi microeconomica dell’impresa, • alle strategie di innovazione tecnologica, • alla valutazione economico-finanziaria dei progetti di investimento • al bilancio d’impresa. Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione Lo studente è in grado di applicare metodi e modelli di base della microeconomia, della teoria dell’organizzazione e di finanza aziendale al fine di: • individuare le determinanti delle principali scelte strategiche dell’impresa, • analizzare l’interazione tra l'evoluzione tecnologica e strutturale dell’industria e le strategie delle imprese, • valutare la redditività di un progetto di investimento, • interpretare il bilancio di un’impresa. Autonomia di giudizio La combinazione di lezioni teoriche frontali ed esercitazioni pratiche mirate alla discussione e alla soluzione di specifici problemi consente agli studenti di acquisire la capacità di valutare potenzialità e limiti dei modelli teorici ai fini della formulazione delle strategie delle imprese. Abilità comunicative Al termine del corso, gli studenti sono in grado di illustrare e spiegare le principali tesi e argomentazioni della microeconomia dell’impresa e della finanza aziendale a una varietà di interlocutori eterogenei per formazione e ruolo professionale. L’acquisizione di tali capacità viene verificata e valutata in occasione dell’esame finale, mediante la prova scritta e l’eventuale prova orale. Capacità di apprendimento Lo studente acquisisce la capacità di condurre in autonomia studi individuali su argomenti specifici di microeconomia e di finanza aziendale. Durante il corso, lo studente è stimolato ad approfondire argomenti di particolare interesse mediante la consultazione di materiale bibliografico supplementare, quali articoli accademici, libri specialistici e siti internet. L’acquisizione di tali capacità viene verificata e valutata in occasione dell’esame finale (mediante la prova scritta e l’eventuale prova orale), nell’ambito del quale lo studente può essere chiamato ad analizzare e risolvere problemi nuovi sulla base degli argomenti trattati e del materiale di riferimento distribuito durante il corso.

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CHIARA GROSSO Scheda docente

Programmi - Frequenza - Esami

Programma
PART I 1. Prerequisites: Analyzing Economic Problems; Demand and Supply Analysis 2. Technology Technological sets and production function. Total, average and marginal productivity. Isoquants and marginal rate of technical substitution. Elasticity of substitution and types of technology. Long run vs short run. Returns to scale and returns to varying proportions. Elasticity of scale. Technological Progress. High tech labour vs low tech labour. 3. Costs The cost function and isocosts. Conditional input demands and Shephard’s lemma. Price and output elasticity of input demands. Expansion path. Short run vs long run cost functions. Total costs. Variable, fixed and quasi-fixed costs. Sunk costs. Average and marginal costs. Economies of scale and the minimum efficient scale. Economies of scope and learning curves 4. Competitive markets Economic profits and opportunity costs. Profit maximization in the long run. Duality of production, cost and profit functions. Hotelling’s lemma. Short run profit maximization. Profit maximization and return to scales. Supply curves and producer’s surplus. Short run vs long run supply curves. Market demand. Individual supply and market supply. Perfect competition. Short run and long run market equilibrium. Meaning of 0-profits. Pareto efficiency; Applications (taxes, subsidies and quotas) 5. Monopoly Demand elasticity. Elasticity and revenues. The monopolist maximization problem. Inefficiency of monopoly and deadweight loss. Causes of monopoly. Subadditivity of costs and economies of scale. Natural monopoly. Price discrimination (first degree, second degree, third degree). 6. Innovation Product innovation vs process innovation. Drastic innovation. Willingness to pay for innovation. Innovation and market structure. PART II 1. Financial accounting The Balance Sheet and Account Categories: Assets, Liabilities, Owners 'Equity. The Income Statement: Revenues, Cost of Sales, Gross Margin, Expenses, Net Income. Relation between Balance Sheet and Income Statement. The Statement of Cash Flows. Misconceptions about Depreciation. Sources and Uses of Cash. Working capital flows. Analysis of the Cash Flow Statement. Part III 1. Value Future Values and Present Values. Net Present Value. Risk and Present Value. Present Values and Rates of Return. Calculating Present Values When There Are Multiple Cash Flows. The Opportunity Cost of Capital. Perpetuities and Annuities. Continuous Compounding. Real and Nominal Rates of Interest. Calculating the Present Value of an Investment. 2. Investment Decisions Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria. Discounted Payback. Internal Rate of Return. Pitfalls of IRR. Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value. Relevance of Cash Flow. Estimation of Cash Flows on an Incremental Basis. Treating of Inflation. Investment Timing. Equivalent Annual Cash Flows and Inflation. Equivalent Annual Cash Flow and Technological Change
Prerequisiti
Analisi dei problemi economici; analisi dei sistemi di domanda-offerta
Testi di riferimento
Microeconomics | 4th Edition, Ronald R Braeutigam, David Besanko (ISBN-13: 9780470563588, ISBN: 0470563583) Chapter 1 Chapter 2 (only sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3) Chapter 6, including Appendix Chapter 7, including pag 283-284 of the Appendix Chapter 8 (excluding section 8.4 at pag 315,316 and 317), including Appendix Chapter 9, including Appendix Chapter 10: Competitive Markets: Applications Chapter 11 (excluding section 11.7) Chapter 12 (excluding sections 12.5 and 12.6) Robert N Anthony, David Hawkins and Kenneth A. Merchant, Accounting: Texts And Cases (13th Edition). Mc Graw Hill. Chapter 2: Basic accounting concepts: the balance sheet Chapter 3:Basic accounting concepts: the income statement Chapter 5: Revenue and monetary assets Chapter 6: Cost of sales and inventories Chapter 7: Long-lived non monetary assets and their amortization Chapter 8: Sources of capital: debt Chapter 9: Sources of capital: equity Chapter 11: The statement of cash flows Chapter 13: Financial statements analysis Brealey, R. A., Myers, S. C., Allen, F., Principles of corporate finance (12th Edition). Mc Graw Hill. Chapter 2: How to Calculate Present Values Chapter 5: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria Chapter 6: Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule
Frequenza
Non obbligatoRIA
Modalità di esame
Prova scritta sul programma svolto (esercizi applicativi e domande teoriche)
Modalità di erogazione
Il corso consiste in una combinazione di lezioni teoriche ed esercitazioni pratiche che intendono illustrare allo studente i principali concetti, metodi e modelli della teoria dell' economia dell'impresa
CHIARA GROSSO Scheda docente
SIMONE DI LEO Scheda docente

Programmi - Frequenza - Esami

Programma
PART I 1. Prerequisites: Analyzing Economic Problems; Demand and Supply Analysis 2. Technology Technological sets and production function. Total, average and marginal productivity. Isoquants and marginal rate of technical substitution. Elasticity of substitution and types of technology. Long run vs short run. Returns to scale and returns to varying proportions. Elasticity of scale. Technological Progress. High tech labour vs low tech labour. 3. Costs The cost function and isocosts. Conditional input demands and Shephard’s lemma. Price and output elasticity of input demands. Expansion path. Short run vs long run cost functions. Total costs. Variable, fixed and quasi-fixed costs. Sunk costs. Average and marginal costs. Economies of scale and the minimum efficient scale. Economies of scope and learning curves 4. Competitive markets Economic profits and opportunity costs. Profit maximization in the long run. Duality of production, cost and profit functions. Hotelling’s lemma. Short run profit maximization. Profit maximization and return to scales. Supply curves and producer’s surplus. Short run vs long run supply curves. Market demand. Individual supply and market supply. Perfect competition. Short run and long run market equilibrium. Meaning of 0-profits. Pareto efficiency; Applications (taxes, subsidies and quotas) 5. Monopoly Demand elasticity. Elasticity and revenues. The monopolist maximization problem. Inefficiency of monopoly and deadweight loss. Causes of monopoly. Subadditivity of costs and economies of scale. Natural monopoly. Price discrimination (first degree, second degree, third degree). 6. Innovation Product innovation vs process innovation. Drastic innovation. Willingness to pay for innovation. Innovation and market structure. PART II 1. Financial accounting The Balance Sheet and Account Categories: Assets, Liabilities, Owners 'Equity. The Income Statement: Revenues, Cost of Sales, Gross Margin, Expenses, Net Income. Relation between Balance Sheet and Income Statement. The Statement of Cash Flows. Misconceptions about Depreciation. Sources and Uses of Cash. Working capital flows. Analysis of the Cash Flow Statement. Part III 1. Value Future Values and Present Values. Net Present Value. Risk and Present Value. Present Values and Rates of Return. Calculating Present Values When There Are Multiple Cash Flows. The Opportunity Cost of Capital. Perpetuities and Annuities. Continuous Compounding. Real and Nominal Rates of Interest. Calculating the Present Value of an Investment. 2. Investment Decisions Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria. Discounted Payback. Internal Rate of Return. Pitfalls of IRR. Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value. Relevance of Cash Flow. Estimation of Cash Flows on an Incremental Basis. Treating of Inflation. Investment Timing. Equivalent Annual Cash Flows and Inflation. Equivalent Annual Cash Flow and Technological Change
Prerequisiti
Analisi dei problemi economici; analisi dei sistemi di domanda-offerta
Testi di riferimento
Microeconomics | 4th Edition, Ronald R Braeutigam, David Besanko (ISBN-13: 9780470563588, ISBN: 0470563583) Chapter 1 Chapter 2 (only sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3) Chapter 6, including Appendix Chapter 7, including pag 283-284 of the Appendix Chapter 8 (excluding section 8.4 at pag 315,316 and 317), including Appendix Chapter 9, including Appendix Chapter 10: Competitive Markets: Applications Chapter 11 (excluding section 11.7) Chapter 12 (excluding sections 12.5 and 12.6) Robert N Anthony, David Hawkins and Kenneth A. Merchant, Accounting: Texts And Cases (13th Edition). Mc Graw Hill. Chapter 2: Basic accounting concepts: the balance sheet Chapter 3:Basic accounting concepts: the income statement Chapter 5: Revenue and monetary assets Chapter 6: Cost of sales and inventories Chapter 7: Long-lived non monetary assets and their amortization Chapter 8: Sources of capital: debt Chapter 9: Sources of capital: equity Chapter 11: The statement of cash flows Chapter 13: Financial statements analysis Brealey, R. A., Myers, S. C., Allen, F., Principles of corporate finance (12th Edition). Mc Graw Hill. Chapter 2: How to Calculate Present Values Chapter 5: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria Chapter 6: Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule
Frequenza
Non obbligatoRIA
Modalità di esame
Prova scritta sul programma svolto (esercizi applicativi e domande teoriche)
Modalità di erogazione
Il corso consiste in una combinazione di lezioni teoriche ed esercitazioni pratiche che intendono illustrare allo studente i principali concetti, metodi e modelli della teoria dell' economia dell'impresa
SIMONE DI LEO Scheda docente
  • Codice insegnamento1055047
  • Anno accademico2024/2025
  • CorsoIngegneria meccanica - Mechanical Engineering
  • CurriculumProgettazione meccanica
  • Anno1º anno
  • Semestre2º semestre
  • SSDING-IND/35
  • CFU6
  • Ambito disciplinareAttività formative affini o integrative