114-0300/05 – Microeconomics A (Mikro A)
| Gurantor department | Department of Economics | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Martin Hodula, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Martin Hodula, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2023/2024 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the course: students are able to:
- describe the basic economic cathegories,
- think in independent and creative way about economic problems,
- explain the behaviour of consumers, households and firms
- understand, how the product markets and the labour and capital market work.
- analyze causes and consequences of market failures and to conceive the microeconomic role of the government.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The aim of the subject is to make the basis for students’ independent creative economic thinking. The main emphasis is laid on the behaviour of consumers, households, firms and government. Attention is also paid to the labour market and capital market.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Studentovi bude udělen zápočet, pokud získá z kontrolní písemky a zápočtového testu v celkovém součtu minimálně 18 bodů z maximálního počtu 35 bodů. Kontrolní písemka bude psána v polovině semestru a je hodnocena maximálně 15 body. Dalších maximálně 20 bodů (z celkových 35) lze získat ze zápočtového testu na konci semestru.
V případě, že student nezíská za kontrolní písemku a zápočtový test alespoň 18 bodů, může absolvovat v opravném termínu znovu zápočtový test (který bude hodnocen opět maximálně 20 body). Získané body z tohoto opravného testu budou přičteny k dosaženým bodům z kontrolní písemky.
Předmět je ukončen písemnou zkouškou za maximálně 65 bodů, minimálně však 26 bodů.
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation on seminars, study of recommended literature. Students with ISP have the same conditions for completing the course as full-time students.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to economics.
2. Economic backgrounds and connections of the production.
3. Money.
4. Market and market mechanism.
5. The theory of utility.
6. The demand and its elasticity.
7. The firm – its aims and production activity.
8. Costs, revenues and profits of the firm.
9. The firm behaviour in perfect competition conditions.
10. The behaviour of the monopoly.
11. The firm behaviour in oligopoly and in monopolistic competition conditions.
12. Labour market.
13. Capital market.
14. The distribution of income and wealth.
15. Externalities and public goods.
16. Public choice theory
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
Předmět neobsahuje žádné hodnocení.