Lezioni di politica economica. Mercato, politiche e regolamentazione (II edizione)

[Autom. eng. transl.] This manual provides an introduction to Economic Policy for undergraduate students. The volume is organized around the following macro-themes: measures to evaluate the state of a country's economy; the efficiency of an idealized market economy and inefficient outcomes with more realistic assumptions such as: externalities, public goods, market power, information asymmetry (adverse selection and moral hazard) and taxation; macroeconomic policies and economic growth; international trade and the mobility of production factors; the economics of well-being and collective choices. This second edition includes new topics, is enriched with further examples of interpretative application of the proposed theoretical models and updates the empirical evidence. The text allows you to acquire the necessary tools to discover the forces at play behind various important phenomena, such as pollution (global warming), the governance and sustainability of common resources, monopoly power, health insurance, systems pensions, the regulation of financial markets, labor markets, monetary and financial policies, the sustainability of public debt, exchange rate policies and international trade.