2013/2014 
BA-EOK_MEI  Managerial economics I
  
    
      | English Title | 
    
      | Managerial economics
I | 
  
  
    
      |  | 
    
      | Language | English | 
    
      | Exam ECTS | 7.5 ECTS | 
    
      | Type | Mandatory | 
    
      | Level | Bachelor | 
    
      | Duration | One Semester | 
    
      | Course period | Spring 2. semester
 | 
    
      | Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus | 
    
      | Study board | 
          Study Board for BA in English and Organisational
Communication | 
    
      | Course
coordinator | 
    
      | 
          Victor Lund - Department of Operations Management
(OM) | 
    
      | Main academic
disciplines | 
    
      | 
          FinanceFinancial and management accountingCorporate and Business StrategyEconomics, macro economics and managerial
economics | 
    
      | Last updated on
15-08-2013 | 
  
  
    
      | Learning objectives | 
    
      | The student must be able to: analyze and evaluate environmental factors that are relevant to
attractiveness of industries and how these factors may affect
market structures.analyze and evaluate market structures and identify preferences
and market concentration and how they affect market
structures.comment on and assess cost ratio on short as well as long term
basis.analyze and evaluate current demand and the relation to price
elasticity, including sensitivity in relation to other products and
services.analyze and explain the fundamental pricing and optimization of
companies' on both short and long term bases.analyze and explain complex pricing and optimization where a
product or service is sold in more than one market.analyze and explain complex optimization situations where firms
face a number of complex constraints.
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      | Examination | 
    
      | 
          
            
              | Managerial
economics I: |  
              | Examination form | Home assignment - written product |  
              | Individual or group exam | Individual |  
              |  | The assignment is a case text with predefined
questions. Answers must be grounded in the case text and apply the
associated theory. 
 Examination language: English
 |  
              | Size of written product | Max. 10 pages |  
              | Assignment type | Case based assignment |  
              | Duration | 48 hours to prepare |  
              | Grading scale | 7-step scale |  
              | Examiner(s) | One internal examiner |  
              | Exam period | Summer Term |  
              | Make-up exam/re-exam | Same examination form as the ordinary
exam |  | 
    
      | Course content and
structure | 
    
      | 
          On completing this course, students know and can apply the
fundamentals of business economic theory and method, with the
objective to analyze and classify rational decision-making in
specific situations, taking into account the limitations and
the organization's short-term and long-term objectives
regardless of the type of business and industry.The course aims at providing students with understanding
of the prerequisites for qualified decision making in a
company's various functional areas including sales, marketing,
production and costs. | 
    
      | Teaching methods | 
    
      | • Lectures • Workshops where theory is presented and aplied to be use on case
studies and assignments.
 • Classroom exercises in which theory is applied in the performance
of various tasks.
 
 Teaching language: English
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      | Student workload | 
    
      | 
          
            | Teaching | 54 hours |  
            | Preparation (including preparation for exercises) | 83 hours |  
            | Home assignments | 25 hours |  
            | Examination incl. preparation for exam | 45 hours |  | 
    
      | Expected literature | 
    
      | Salvatore, Dominick: Managerial Economics in a Global
Economy, 7th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Henry, Anthony: Understanding Strategic Management,
Oxford University Press, 2011
 Lund, Victor: Basic accounting.
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  Last updated on
15-08-2013