- Teacher: GIUSEPPE RAGUSA
- co-docente: ANGELA PARENTI
- Teacher: DAVIDE FIASCHI
- co-docente: FRANCESCO LAMPERTI
- co-docente: ANDREA ROVENTINI
Students are expected to acquire - the tools and concepts to understand and represent individual behaviour both as consumption units, investors and firms, in certain, uncertain and strategic environments - the tools and concepts to understand and represent the working of single markets, in conditions of perfect and imperfect competition and the basic tools for intervention and regulation - the tools and concepts to understand and interpret the working of the whole economy, its properties and limitations - ability to solve problems conceerning individual and market behaviour - critical and selective capacity to apply the above tools to analyze, interpret and represent real phenomena from the microeconomic point of view - ability to autonomously read and understand advanced textbooks and academic articles at the frontier of economic literature in the field of microeconomics.
The student will be assessed on - his/her demonstrated ability to discuss the main course contents using appropriate terminology, proper concepts and rigorous thinking. - his/her demonstrated ability to solve simple problems concerning the main contents of the course, applying the appropriate tools.
The student will be assessed on - his/her demonstrated ability to discuss the main course contents using appropriate terminology, proper concepts and rigorous thinking. - his/her demonstrated ability to solve simple problems concerning the main contents of the course, applying the appropriate tools.
- Teacher: PIER MARIO PACINI
- Teacher: NERI SALVADORI
- Teacher: PAOLO SCAPPARONE
- co-docente: MARCO CATOLA
- co-docente: TOMMASO LUZZATI
This course is intended to serve as a broad introduction to the huge literature using agent-based computational approaches to the study of economic dynamics. It is organized in three parts. The first one (“Why?”) will discuss the roots of the critiques to the mainstream paradigm from a methodological, empirical and experimental perspective. We shall briefly review the building blocks of mainstream models (rationality, equilibrium, interactions, etc.) and shortly present some of the evidence coming from cognitive psychology and experimental economics, network theory and empirical studies, supporting the idea that bounded rationality, non-trivial interactions, non-equilibrium dynamics, heterogeneity, etc. are irreducible features of modern economies. In the second part (“What?”) we shall discuss what ACE is and what are its main tools of analysis. We will define an ABM and present many examples of classes of ABMS, from the simplest (cellular automata, evolutionary games) to the most complicated ones (micro-founded macro models).The third part (“How?”) aims at understanding how ABMs can be designed, implemented and statistically analyzed. We shall briefly present the basics of programming, by both discussing the pros and cons of using simulation platforms (Matlab, NetLogo, Swarm, LSD, etc.) vs. computer languages (Java, C++, etc.) and providing some simple “hands-on” applications to cellular automata. Finally, we will see how the outputs of ABMs simulation should be treated from a statistical point of view (e.g., Montecarlo techniques) and we will discuss two hot topics in ABM research: empirical validation and policy analysis.
- Teacher: GIORGIO FAGIOLO
- co-docente: ANDREA ROVENTINI
- co-docente: Emanuele Russo
The aim of the course is to examine the major decision-making areas of managerial finance and some selected topics in financial theory.
Starting from capital budgeting decisions, the course covers the main company valuation methodologies and examines the effect of corporate decisions on market value through the event study methodology.
The course reviews the theory and empirical evidence related to Mergers & Acquisitions and concludes examining the IPO decision and the effects of corporate governance characteristics of listed companies
Course Outline
- Project valuation with DCF methodologies
- Business Valuation: DCF and multiple methods
- The event study methodology
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- IPO and corporate governance issues for listed companies.
Starting from capital budgeting decisions, the course covers the main company valuation methodologies and examines the effect of corporate decisions on market value through the event study methodology.
The course reviews the theory and empirical evidence related to Mergers & Acquisitions and concludes examining the IPO decision and the effects of corporate governance characteristics of listed companies
Course Outline
- Project valuation with DCF methodologies
- Business Valuation: DCF and multiple methods
- The event study methodology
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- IPO and corporate governance issues for listed companies.
- Teacher: ROBERTO BARONTINI
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the main topics of economic methodology, linking philosophical issues with practical problems that economists face in the confrontation of models with data. The course focuses on forms of explanation in economics; foundational issues of probability, statistical and causal inference; the role of models and their appraisal; issues in decision theory and the methodology of experimental economics
- Teacher: ALESSIO MONETA
- co-docente: PIETRO GUARNIERI
- Teacher: POMPEO DELLA POSTA
- co-docente: SIMONE D'ALESSANDRO
- Teacher: LORENZO CORSINI
- co-docente: IRENE BRUNETTI
- co-docente: DAVIDE FIASCHI
- co-docente: NICOLA MECCHERI
- Teacher: MAURO SODINI
- co-docente: ANDREA CARAVAGGIO
- co-docente: LAURA CAROSI
- Teacher: MONICA PRATESI
- Teacher: MONICA PRATESI
- co-docente: LUCA FAUSTINI
- co-docente: LINDA PORCIANI
- co-docente: ROBERTA VARRIALE
See https://eer.ec.unipi.it/
- Teacher: DAVIDE FIASCHI
- co-docente: ANGELA PARENTI