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Materials for the Microeconomics course in the Bachelor in Business Administration, University of Bologna: course notes and the slides of all twenty lectures. The material is in Italian.

course notes

Microeconomics Course Notes — last updated: 22 May 2026

slides

Lecture 1: Thinking Like an Economist

Lecture 2: Preferences and Indifference Curves

Lecture 3: Budget Constraint and Consumer Optimization

Lecture 4: Individual Demand and Comparative Statics

Lecture 5: Demand Elasticity

Lecture 6: Technology and the Production Function

Lecture 7: Returns to Scale, Isoquants, and MRTS

Lecture 8: Production Costs and Cost Curves

Lecture 9: Cost Minimization and Optimal Factor Choice

Lecture 10: General Review

Lecture 11: Profit Maximization

Lecture 12: Firm Supply and Market Supply

Lecture 13: Competitive Equilibrium

Lecture 14: Deadweight Loss and Administered Prices

Lecture 15: Taxes and Subsidies

Lecture 16: Monopoly

Lecture 17: Rent-Seeking, Lerner Index, and Price Discrimination

Lecture 18: Oligopoly and Game Theory

Lecture 19: Information Asymmetries

Lecture 20: General Review