Teaching
Introduction to Microeconomics
The course Introduction to Microeconomics is the very first contact for undergraduate students with the concepts of Economic Theory. The main objective of the course is to familiarize students with the basic concepts of Microeconomics, allowing them to follow more advanced courses. Given its analytical approach, an important objective of the course is to enable students to be able to give a quantitative answer to the proposed economic problems. In order to do so, the course will provide students with both theoretical and practical training and develop a range of skills in handling tools for solving problems with the ultimate goal of creating a knowledge base that allow students to apply the general concepts learned to real situations faced when developing their professional activity.
Microeconomics
This course is a natural follow up of the first year course "Introduction to Microeconomics" and, therefore, its content completes what constitutes an intermediate Microeconomics course. Microeconomics analyses how the interaction of the behavior of agents generates the equilibrium prices and quantities in the different market structures (competitive and no competitive). In this course, we study the perfect competition market structure and also we exhaustively review several market structures with imperfect competition. In particular, we obtain the equilibrium prices and quantities for each structure, paying special attention at the comparative statics among the different market structures. We pay special attention to the questions derived from the lack of competition and its effects from the efficiency point of view. In addition to that, a final chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the inputs’ market.
Environmental Economics
This subject aims to provide students with knowledge on 1) most of the most important environmental problems and their interpretation from an economic perspective, 2) the study of analytical techniques to assess the economic value of the environment, 3) the principles, norms and procedures of sustainable development from an economic perspective, and 4) the theory and foundations for the analysis of policies. Although the objective of this subject is to provide students with a range of knowledge related to terminology, methodology, principles, and theories of environmental economics, they also try to develop the ability of students to apply the information and knowledge acquired throughout of the Degree in Economics to specific situations and problems of the new economic context so that the subject of Environmental Economics becomes a useful tool in their future professional development.