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Ec107 30 2021

This module provides an introduction to fundamental microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts and analytical skills. It aims to equip students with the ability to apply economic models and reasoning to real-world problems. Key topics covered include supply and demand, markets, firms, consumption, inflation, unemployment, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policy. Assessment includes problem sets, MCQ tests, and an online examination.

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Ec107 30 2021

This module provides an introduction to fundamental microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts and analytical skills. It aims to equip students with the ability to apply economic models and reasoning to real-world problems. Key topics covered include supply and demand, markets, firms, consumption, inflation, unemployment, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policy. Assessment includes problem sets, MCQ tests, and an online examination.

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EC107-30 Economics 1

21/22
Department
Economics
Level
Undergraduate Level 1
Module leader
Alexander Karalis Isaac
Credit value
30
Module duration
20 weeks
Assessment
Multiple
Study location
University of Warwick main campus, Coventry

Description

Introductory description

This module allows students to develop an understanding of fundamental and intermediate


concepts in micro and macroeconomic analysis by equipping them with a range of appropriate
analytical skills, including descriptive, graphical and mathematical methods. This allows students
to develop the capacity to apply analytical techniques to real world problems.

Module web page

Module aims

• To develop in students an understanding of fundamental and intermediate concepts in micro


and macroeconomic analysis
• To equip students with a range of appropriate analytical skills, including descriptive,
graphical and mathematical methods; and
• To develop the capacity to apply analytical techniques to real world problems and build
economic models that enable students to better understand the world around us

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be
covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
Typically, topics covered will include those such as:
Micro (term 1)

• The Capitalist Revolution


• Technology, Population and Growth
• Scarcity, Work and Choice
• Social Interactions
• Property and Power
• The Firm: Owners, managers and employees
• The Firm and its Customers
• Supply and Demand
• Markets, Efficiency and Public Policy

Macro (Term 2)

• Consumption, saving and investment.


• Aggregate demand, the multiplier and the IS curve
• The labour discipline model of equilibrium unemployment
• Wage setting, inflation and the Phillips Curve
• Social Preferences over inflation and unemployment, the central bank
• Monetary policy stabilisation: central bank responses to economic shocks
• Fiscal policy stabilisation
• Economic growth in historical and global perspective
• The Solow model of economic growth

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• Subject Knowledge and Understanding:... demonstrate knowledge of economic behaviours,


outcomes, trends, developments, phenomena, institutions and policies.
• Subject Knowledge and Understanding:...demonstrate an understanding of key concepts,
principles, theories and models in Economics.
• Subject Specific/Professional Skills:...demonstrate the capacity for abstract reasoning and to
simplify economic problems through the application of theoretical models.
• Subject Specific/Professional Skills:...demonstrate the capacity to interpret economic data
and to use data to inform the selection and application of appropriate economic tools of
analysis.

Indicative reading list

Please see Talis Aspire link for most up to date list.

View reading list on Talis Aspire

Subject specific skills

Students will have the opportunity to develop skills in:


Analytical thinking and communication
Analytical reasoning
Critical thinking
Strategic thinking
Problem-solving
Abstraction
Policy evaluation
Analysis of incentives
Analysis of optimisation

Transferable skills

Students will have the opportunity to develop:


Research skills
Numeracy and quantitative skills
IT skills
Written communication skills
Oral communication skills
Mathematical, statistical and data-based research skills

Study

Study time
Type Required
Lectures 40 sessions of 1 hour (13%)
Seminars 16 sessions of 1 hour (5%)
Private study 244 hours (81%)
Total 300 hours

Private study description

Private study will be required in order to prepare for seminars/classes, to review lecture notes, to
prepare for forthcoming assessments, tests, and exams, and to undertake wider reading around
the subject.

Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.

Assessment
You do not need to pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Students can register for this module without taking any assessment.

Assessment group D4

Weighting Study time


Assessment 1: Problem set (group work) Micro 5%
Group work assignment

Assessment 2: MCQ Test 10%


50 minute Multiple Choice Question class test held online

Assessment 3: Problem set (group work) Macro 5%


Group work assignment

Assessment 4: MCQ Test 10%


50 minute Multiple Choice Question class test held online

Online Examination 70%


A paper which examines the course content and ensures learning outcomes are achieved.

~Platforms - AEP

• Online examination: No Answerbook required


• Students may use a calculator

Assessment group R3

Weighting Study time


Online Examination - Resit 100%
A paper which examines the course content and ensures learning outcomes are achieved.

~Platforms - AEP

• Online examination: No Answerbook required

Feedback on assessment

The Department of Economics is committed to providing high quality and timely feedback to
students on their assessed work, to enable them to review and continuously improve their work.
We are dedicated to ensuring feedback is returned to students within 20 University working days
of their assessment deadline. Feedback for assignments is returned either on a standardised
assessment feedback cover sheet which gives information both by tick boxes and by free
comments or via free text comments on tabula, together with the annotated assignment. For tests
and problem sets, students receive solutions as an important form of feedback and their marked
assignment, with a breakdown of marks and comments by question and sub-question. Students
are informed how to access their feedback, either by collecting from the Undergraduate Office or
via tabula. Module leaders often provide generic feedback for the cohort outlining what was done
well, less well, and what was expected on the assignment and any other common themes. This
feedback also includes a cumulative distribution function with summary statistics so students can
review their performance in relation to the cohort. This feedback is in addition to the individual-
specific feedback on assessment performance.

Past exam papers for EC107

Availability

Pre-requisites

This module is available as an optional module for all students outside the Economics Department
(except for WBS students) who have achieved a Grade B or better in Mathematics at A-level, or
the equivalent. It is a pre-requisite for EC204: Economics 2 and EC238/EC239.

Post-requisite modules

If you pass this module, you can take:

• EC238-15 Economics 2: Microeconomics


• EC208-15 Industrial Economics 1: Market Structure
• EC208-15 Industrial Economics 1: Market Structure
• EC202-30 Microeconomics 2
• EC228-15 Political Economy: Theory and Applications
• EC226-30 Econometrics 1
• EC220-15 Mathematical Economics 1A
• EC205-15 Development Economics (Macroeconomics)
• EC203-30 Applied Econometrics
• EC201-30 Macroeconomics 2
• EC239-15 Economics 2: Macroeconomics
• EC233-15 Development Economics (Microeconomics)
• EC221-15 Mathematical Economics 1B
• EC204-30 Economics 2
• EC230-15 Economics of Money & Banking

Courses
This module is Core for:

• Year 1 of UIPA-L1L8 Undergraduate Economic Studies and Global Sustainable


Development
• UECA-LM1D Undergraduate Economics, Politics and International Studies
○ Year 1 of LM1D Economics, Politics and International Studies
○ Year 1 of LM1D Economics, Politics and International Studies
• Year 1 of UPHA-L1CA Undergraduate Economics, Psychology and Philosophy
• Year 1 of ULNA-R1L4 Undergraduate French and Economics (4-year)
• Year 1 of ULNA-R2L4 Undergraduate German and Economics (4-year)
• Year 1 of ULNA-R4L1 Undergraduate Hispanic Studies and Economics (4-year)
• Year 1 of ULNA-R3L4 Undergraduate Italian and Economics (4-year)
• Year 1 of UMAA-GL11 Undergraduate Mathematics and Economics
• Year 1 of UECA-GL12 Undergraduate Mathematics and Economics (with Intercalated Year)
• Year 1 of ULNA-R9L1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Economics (4-year)
• UPHA-V7ML Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics
○ Year 1 of V7ML Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Tripartite)
○ Year 1 of V7ML Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Tripartite)

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