Corso di diritto pubblico

The course aims at introducing students to the main theoretical and empirical tools used for data analysis and applied empirical research. The course will focus on the identification and estimation of causal relationships. At the end of the course, participants should be able to critically read scientific articles and to start designing and performing their own analysis using the tools illustrated. The methods presented will allow students to address policy questions that are relevant from a social and economic perspective. For example: Does smoking cause cancer? Does an additional year of education increase future earnings? Does job training increase productivity? Does minimum wage affect unemployment? Does more police reduce crime rate?
Students will be introduced to applied micro econometrics toolkits and at the end of the course students will be able to search for policy relevant questions, define a credible and appropriate research design, collect data and perform empirical analysis through the use of econometric software (i.e. Stata).

Corso di studi Ingegneria Meccanica

The first part of the course covers both some key topics in Advance Microeconomics such as choice under uncertainty (essential for financial decisions) and contract theory (with labor market effects) and some of the strategies that firms with market power may adopt in order to maximize the returns on business investments. The latter topics range from pricing decisions (consumers’ discrimination, bundling and tie-in-sales), no-price competition (product differentiation), anti-competitive behaviour (collusion, mergers) and antitrust economics.

In the second part the course provides an introduction to applied econometrics. The goal is to develop the skills necessary to conduct empirical research in economics. No previous knowledge of econometrics is assumed. It will be helpful if one has a good background in statistics, probability theory and matrix algebra. This course covers basic techniques in quantitative economic analysis. It introduces students to widely-used procedures for regression analysis, and provides intuitive, applied, and formal foundations for regression methods. The course covers model assumptions and techniques for addressing violations of those assumptions (e.g., heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation, multicollinearity), as well as issues of model specification, functional forms, endogeneity and time-series data.

Dott.ssa Susan Kingshott teaches the Comunicazione curriculum, while Dott.sa Katharine Sherwood teaches the Cooperazione curriculum.  However the programme is the same, as is the exam at the end. 

Il successo di un’impresa nel tempo è descritto dalla strategia. Il suo futuro è riposto nella capacità di individuare la direzione per ricreare costantemente le condizioni favorevoli alla crescita, anche in situazioni d’incertezza e in un ambiente in rapido cambiamento globale. Incertezza e complessità sono elementi che caratterizzano gli scenari globali del secondo millennio, ai quali è necessario contrapporre la capacità di gestione del cambiamento strategico.

Il cambiamento strategico e la gestione della complessità appaiono i principali temi del nuovo millennio, sia per l'economia e sia per le imprese. Il corso introduce il concetto di gestione strategica e considera la direzione e gli obiettivi di un’organizzazione, i settori e la struttura del mercato, i punti di forza e di debolezza nelle situazioni a elevata incertezza. Grande enfasi è posta all’evoluzione strategica connessa all’innovazione tecnologica dirompente, un tipo d’innovazione che può minare i tradizionali piani strategici in brevissimo tempo, ma che genera grandi opportunità, ove siano colti e interpretati i nuovi paradigmi del business.

The success of a company over time is described by its strategy. The future stands on the ability to find the direction to recreate the conditions for growth, even under uncertainty and a very fast global changing environment. Uncertainty and complexity characterize the global scenarios of the second millennium, so that the ability to manage the strategic change is paramount.

Strategic change and complexity management are the main issues of the new millennium both for economics and business. This course explains the notion of strategic management and debates the direction and the goals of an organization, the industries and the market structure, the strengths and weaknesses in highly uncertain business environments. A great emphasis is put on the strategic evolution driven by the fast technological disruptive innovation, a kind of innovation with the power to undermine traditional strategic plans in a matter of months or even days, but also to create great opportunities within the new business paradigms.