Course Content Summaries - Academic Year 2017-2018
Course Content Summaries
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1st module: Development economics (4 ECTS) |
This course provides students with a complete and balanced introduction to the theory, driving policy issues, and latest research on the Economics of Development. A policy-oriented approach is taken, presenting theories on Economic Development in the context of contemporary international debates. During the course, case studies on selected topics will be presented and discussed with the goal of encouraging continue and active participation of all the students. |
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2nd module: Economics and business of emerging markets (3 ECTS) |
This course offers an overview on growth and development in the so-called Emerging Countries. The development strategies, the industrialization processes and the catching-up efforts are analyzed. Moreover, in a doing-business perspective, the present and the future of the economic relationships between some selected Emerging Countries and Italy will be discussed. Case studies will be presented to encourage continue and active participation of all the students. |
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Eco-Innovations and economic performances (1st module - 3 ECTS) and Environmental regulations and Eco-Innovations (2nd module - 4 ECTS) |
This course disentangles the complex linkages and relationships between innovation dynamics, market structure and the environment. The first module of the course studies how different types of market structure obstacle or favour innovation adoption, with a special focus on eco-innovation. The second module of the course will be more related to the economic effect of eco-innovation in terms of firm’s performances and employment dynamics. Finally, the effect of Eco-Innovation on the environment will be shortly revised in the final module of the course. Several seminar lectures will provide real world applications taken from the energy sector and from recent innovation studies. |
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Innovation and invention: barriers and drivers (1st module - 3 ECTS) and Innovation, diffusion, business, models and tecnology trasfer (2nd module - 4 ECTS) |
The objective of the course is twofold: 1) providing the students of a sound conceptual background on the main topics of the Economics of Innovation (e.g. systems of innovation, innovation policy evaluation, innovation and diffusion, measuring innovation); 2) illustrating the most recent advances in econometrics related to innovation topics. |
[Training objectives, prerequisites, course programme, didactic methods, learning assessment procedures and reference texts will be clearly listed before the beginning of the course]
The course is an introduction to economics and policy perspective on environmental problems. How environmental policy should be efficiently designed is a main theme. Case studies and empirical evidence will cover climate change and waste, with a focus on eco innovation developed by firms and economic sectors.
[Training objectives, prerequisites, course programme, didactic methods, learning assessment procedures and reference texts will be clearly listed before the beginning of the course]
This course presents intellectual property laws and environmental laws which aims at promoting environmental technological innovation from invention to commercialization
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The main goal of this course is to develop a foundation of financial management concepts. The course assists students to develop a systematic understanding of issues related to how SMEs make important investment and financing decisions, and how they establish working capital policies
Financial Public Economics - 7 ECTS - 2nd semester - 2st year of Master Degree
The course will provide theoretical and empirical tools, needed to address and search for adequate solutions to some relevant and current issues of public economics.
Governance and accounting in SMEs - 9 ECTS - 1st semester - 1st year of Master Degree
The course deals with the concept of corporate governance and in particular the way owners and managers can develop a consistent relationship in SMEs. A specific focus is devoted to the context of family firms. The second part of the course is devoted to the analysis of the accounting tools and methodology in order to support decision making, external reporting (Financial and non-financial) and control.
Industrial policy and sustainability - 9 ECTS - 2nd Semester - 1st year of Master degree
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Industrial economics and policy (1st module - 7 ECTS) and Economics of small and medium enterprises (2nd module - 2 ECTS) |
This is an advance course of industrial economics and policy comprising issues of strategies and competition, industry dynamics, competition policy, innovation policy and green industrial policy. Theoretical and empirical evidence will be discussed using real world cases of industries and firms. A specific module will be dedicated to SMEs, focusing particularly on issues related to clustering, firm creation and growth, and SME policy. |
Industrial Organization and Industrial Policy - 8 ECTS 2nd Semester - 3rd year of Bachelor degree
The course aims at studying and discussing the main issues related to the debate of Industrial Organization, Industrial Economics and Industrial Policy. The most diffused economic theories will be presented, in integration with the more recent developments. In particular, the course will deepen the knowledge on topics such as the theory of the firm, market structures and market concentration, barriers to entry, price strategies, product differentiation, M&A, vertical integration, innovation, market failures and industrial policy interventions, antitrust and competition policies, innovation policy.
International marketing - (7 ECTS) - 2nd semester - 2nd year of Master Degree
[Training objectives, prerequisites, course programme, didactic methods, learning assessment procedures and reference texts will be clearly listed before the beginning of the course]
The course targets at giving students a deep insight of a vast number of relevant market and marketing trends. It will not take into consideration just the traditional international marketing matters (e.g. how to select an international market), but aims at drawing a “bigger picture”.
International trade and competitiveness (7 ECTS) - 2nd semester - 2nd year of Master Degree
[Training objectives, prerequisites, course programme, didactic methods, learning assessment procedures and reference texts will be clearly listed before the beginning of the course]
The subject deals with principles and tools for production, supply-chain and logistics processes. Tools and principles linked to Lean Manufacturing and other management systems such as Six Sigma and TQM will be discussed in order to understand how to create a one-piece-flow reducing production costs. Logistics, Supply-Chain Management and Agile Systems represent fundamental parts of the programme.
Organizational behavior and human resource management - 8 ECTS - 2nd Semester - 1st year of Master degree
The goal of the course is to provide the main conceptual tools that are necessary for the analysis of human resource management and organizational behavior in enterprises. The main topics are: motivation and decision making; leadership; group dynamics; human resource management policies.
Quantitative methods for Economics and Business - 8 ETCS - 1st semester - 1st year of Master Degree
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Math. methods for econ and business |
The course aims to give a solid theoretical background in differential calculus in euclidean spaces in order to solve economic problems of optimization. Particular attention will be given to various applications (Data Envelopment Analysis) (1st module - 4 ECTS) |
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Stat. methods for econ and business |
The course deals with advanced statistical methods for complex problems related to business and economics. The teaching approach is application-oriented. (2nd module - 4 ECTS) |
[Training objectives, prerequisites, course programme, didactic methods, learning assessment procedures and reference texts will be clearly listed before the beginning of the course]
The course analyses public policies aimed at achieving territorial and urban development, with particular reference to the following issues: integrated policies, environmental policies and sustainability, policies for local development, competitiveness policies (for eg., smart cities, creative cities, sustainable urban planning, etc.), policies for the protection and enhancement of historic and artistic assets.
[Training objectives, prerequisites, course programme, didactic methods, learning assessment procedures and reference texts will be clearly listed before the beginning of the course]
The course aims to provide a wide overview of the fiscal tools that are necessary to ensure the stability of public finance. A specific focus will be put on the necessity of a careful coordination of the accounting rules between the European stability and growth pact and the Italian domestic stability pact in order to have a clear definition of the contribution of each Italian sub-national government to aggregate deficit.
Strategic control and performance management - 9 ECTS - 1st semester - 1st year of Master Degree
The subject provides students with an understanding of strategic management, and enabling them to apply tools to help an organization define its sustained competitive advantage. The linkage between organizational strategies and performance measurement tools is shown, too. A wide range of performance dimensions is considered such as the economic, individual, environmental, societal ones.
Theory of the firm and of the markets - 9 ECTS - 2nd semester - 1st year of Master Degree
Firms are an important component of most economic systems and a better understanding of their operation and of the reasons for their existence is necessary to better understand the economic activity. This should give the students an useful economic background for their working careers.
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