Massimo Filippini: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2012

Name	Prof. Dr. Massimo Filippini
Field	Energy and Public Economics
Address	Energy and Public Economics ETH Zürich, ZUE E 15 Zürichbergstrasse 18 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND
Telephone	+41 44 632 06 49
E-mail	mfilippini@ethz.ch
URL	http://www.eepe.ethz.ch/
Department	Management, Technology, and Economics
Relationship	Full Professor

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
151-0906-00L	Frontiers in Energy Research	2 credits	2S	M. Mazzotti, R. S. Abhari, G. Andersson, J. Carmeliet, M. Filippini
Abstract	PhD students at ETH Zurich working in the broad area of energy present their research to their colleagues, to their advisors and to the scientific community.
Learning objective	Knowledge of advanced research in the area of energy.
Content	PhD students at ETH Zurich working in the broad area of energy present their research to their colleagues, to their advisors and to the scientific community. Every week there are two presentations, each structured as follows: 15 min introduction to the research topic, 15 min presentation of the results, 15 min discussion with the audience.
Lecture notes	Slides will be distributed.
363-0503-00L	Principles of Microeconomics	3 credits	2G	M. Filippini
Abstract	The course introduces basic principles, problems and approaches of microeconomics and industrial organization.
Learning objective	The course includes the following main topics: Basic principles of demand and supply, market and state in a modern economy, externalities, cost analysis, consumer behaviour, economies of scale and economies of scope, perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, barriers to entry, market concentration, market power.
Lecture notes	Lecture notes, exercises and reference material can be downloaded from Moodle.
Literature	N. Gregory Mankiw and Mark P. Taylor (2011), "Economics", 2nd edition, South-Western Cengage Learning. Complementary: R. Pindyck and D. Rubinfeld (2009), "Microeconomics", 7th edition, Pearson Education.