Введение в экономику

Бакалавриат 2020/2021

Статус: Курс обязательный (Программа двух дипломов НИУ ВШЭ и Лондонского университета "Прикладной анализ данных")

Направление: 01.03.02. Прикладная математика и информатика

Кто читает: Департамент больших данных и информационного поиска

Где читается: Факультет компьютерных наук

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Преподаватели: Векилян Армине Вагенаковна

Язык: русский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 28

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Аннотация

Introduction to Economics is a one-semester course delivered for the first-year DSBA students in the Spring semester. It is taught in English and Russian. First part of the course is based on online course on Coursera platform “Microeconomic Principles”. The second part of the course will be devoted to Macroeconomic Principles and will be taught in-class. This course is designed to develop students’ critical thinking and economic reasoning skills and focuses on the core micro- and macroeconomic models. Based on standard modelling framework, the course addresses problems of market structures, equilibrium and market failures. It also provides the basic toolkit for the analysis of business cycles, such as the IS-LM-BP and AD-AS models, and describes the real world phenomena such Central banks actions, social policy of the government etc in the framework of that models. PREREQUISITES: This is an introductory course and requires virtually no specific knowledge of the subject. Working knowledge of mathematics (i.e. elementary calculus) is a must.

Цель освоения дисциплины

To introduce students to the main analytical tools which are used in economic analysis.
To introduce students to the main conclusions derived from economic analysis, and develop their understanding of their organizational and policy implications.
To explain the core concepts of economics.
To provide an analysis of the behavior of economic agents, both at micro- and macro- levels.

Планируемые результаты обучения

Students should be able to define the main concepts and describe the models and methods used in economic analysis
Students should be able to assess the potential and limitations of the models and methods used in economic analysis
Students should be able to formulate real world issues in the language of economic concepts and models
Students should be able to apply and use economic concepts and models to analyze these issues

Содержание учебной дисциплины

Introduction to Basic Principles
What is economics?, Opportunity costs, Cost-benefit principle, The invisible hand principle, Trade
Supply and Demand
Equilibrium, supply shortage, supply surplus, difference between a change in quantity demanded/supplied and a change in demand/supply
Market efficiency and Government policies
Equilibrium, consumer surplus, producer surplus, total surplus, price ceilings, price floors
Elasticities
Own price elasticity of demand, Own price elasticity and total revenue, Other demand elasticities, Price elasticity of supply, An application: taxes
Production and Costs
Fixed input, variable input, marginal product, diminishing marginal returns to the variable input, marginal costs, efficient scale
Competitive output
Market structures, Short-run competitive output, Long-run competitive output
Firms with market powers
Monopoly, Monopolistic competition, Pricing with market power
Public Goods, Common Resources and Externalities
Rival good, excludable good, common resource, free-rider problem, externalities, public goods
Introduction to Macroeconomics.
The problem of aggregation, the circular flow of income, leakages and injections, national income accounting, value added, real and nominal gross domestic product (GDP).
The goods market in the closed economy
Actual and potential output, consumption, investment, government expenditure. Taxation and disposable income. Income determination, equilibrium, the multiplier, the paradox of thrift.
Financial markets
The role of money, real balances, the supply of money (banks and the various multipliers), central banks and monetary control, equilibrium in the money market. Deriving the LM (the liquid assets market)
General equilibrium, employment and government policy.
Using policy mix. How does IS-LM model fit the facts?
The labour market. Phillips curve.
Natural rate of unemployment. Movements in unemployment.
The open economy.
Trade balance, foreign exchange market, J curve.

Элементы контроля

Weekly offline quizzes for the second part of the course
In-class quizzes (typically written at the start of each class).
Quizzes
Open book Tests

Промежуточная аттестация

Interim assessment (4 module)
0.7 * Open book Tests + 0.3 * Quizzes

Программа дисциплины