Official Code: | 9081 |
Acronym: | LECO |
- To get the students acquainted with financial mathematics, being able to use it in solving practical financial problems.
- To get students to know a numbero of basic financial instruments, and to use financial calculus to value such instruments.
- To give students the opportunity of using Excel functions to solve problems of financial mathematics.
Students will learn how to study real multivariable functions and how to use this in decision making. The students will namely be able to find the actions (i) that maximize the results, given a restriction on the factors used and (ii) that minimize the factors given an objective, through optimization with and without constraints. The depth of the study will be that which is appropriate in a degree in Economics.
Applications to Management and Economics will be provided when appropriate.
Students will also be able to do mathematics on a computer.
The main objectives of this course are:
(1) understanding some basic economic instruments and principles;
(2) applying those instruments and principles to some economic problems, mainly individual decision-making problems and market problems.
This course aims to provide students with the requisite knowledge and skills to appraise current financial reporting practice critically and to evaluate proposed changes from a theoretical foundation. In particular, the course will seek to:
• Present the documents used in financial reporting, namely financial statements;
• Reflect upon the current model of financial reporting in a theoretically framed manner.
Explain the role Information systems and their support role in the process of reaching a decision in business issues, indispensible in companies. Form users that are capable to take a critical stand regards the methods of information management, providing the possibility to learn about the instruments appropriate in decision making. Efficient management of available information requires integration of different types of information from different sources, aggregation of data and its treatment and analysis. In this currciculum unit the aim is to provide learning of instruments in the area of information systems that permit, among other aspects:
- provide knowledge of basic forms of data representation,
- use tools that permit to describe and analyze data,
- organize data in databases,
- select subsets of structured data and use methods that permit to compare different subsets,
- Elaborate representations of decision structures and relate these to programming concepts,
Economic and Social History is designed to give future economists solid notions on the growth trajectory of the market economies.
This course studies the evolution of the main world economies from the seventeenth century to the present.
Teaching and study are based upon a carefully-chosen set of texts by contemporary classical authors, textbook chapters and research papers.
The course, the classes and the assessment are meant to develop the capacity to interpret indicators, the capacity to present arguments, the critical reading and the economic culture of the students. It is expected that the course will provide some opportunity to approach in concrete historical contexts some themes that are developed in other disciplines.
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To provide students with solid and strong foundations of microeoconomic theory in order to be prepared for the applied microeconomics courses, that are provided in the next academic years.
The discipline ensures a compromise between Public Economics and Public Finance. In a first part of the course, the intervention of the public sector in the economy is analyzed; in a second part the focus is on the financial aspects of the intervention of the public sector in the economy (state budget and taxes).
In the end of the course, students should:
1. Know the most important concepts of the Probability Theory, which are essential for the study of Statistical Inference and Econometrics.
2. Be able to apply the probability concepts, never forgetting their rigourous mathematical formularisation, even when intuitively understood.
3. Be able to do a report on data analysis (computing descriptive statistics and presenting graphical representations, together with the use of the software R)
The aim of Macroeconomics I 1EC204 is to introduce students to the analysis of aggregate fluctuations of contemporary economies, including the conduct and impacts of monetary and fiscal policies.
In providing students the core conceptual and theoretical background of modern macroeconomics, this curricular unit is closely related to Macroeconomics II 1EC210, as well as with Economic Growth 1EC301 and Monetary Economics 1EC302.
The course focuses on (i) basic concepts and measurement of the main macroeconomic variables, (ii) core models for short-term macroeconomic analysis, and (iii) microeconomic foundations for modelling private aggregate demand.
Further topics such as (a) modelling the short-term functioning of open economies, (b) analysis of the labour market in a macro perspective, (c) modelling the dynamics of the macroeconomy from the short-run to the long-run, and (d) discussing the institutional design of macroeconomic policies, are addressed in Macroeconomics II 1EC210.
Students should be able to work in a consumer-oriented logic, to understand the strategic importance of Marketing within organizations and to gain analytic abilities in the field of Marketing, by developing a Marketing plan.
This discipline assumes that Accounting and Management Control is a component (or sub-system) of the fundamental global information system of organizations.
The fundamental objective of the course is to provide students with the knowledge required for the construction, evaluation and use of such sub-system of information for planning, control and decision making, being exposed and discussed principles that can guide the design and respective implementation.
Although the predominant model of study is the industrial sector, the topics covered are applicable to other types of organizations, such as service companies or nonprofit organizations.
The conceptual approach adopted in the course of Industrial Organization comes essentially from the neoclassical economic paradigm, in which formal modelling of the economic structure and determination of the associated economic incentives are stressed. Students will be able to understand and assess the working and the performance of real markets according to the normative and positive theories of the dominant economic paradigm.
In the end of the course, students should:
1. Know the most important concepts of the Statistical Inference, which are essential for the study of Econometrics.
2. Be able to apply the statistical methods to solve problems in new situations, never forgetting their rigourous mathematical formularisation.
Macroeconomics II (1EC210) aims at equiping students with the first skills to explain the aggregate movements of contemporary market economies. Taking into account the position of the course in the degree in Economics plan, the available academic time, and the articulation with the other courses in macroeconomics - namely Macroeconomics I (1EC204) -, the main objective of the course is to equip students with the capacity to use basic macroeconomic models as tools for the analysis of economic fluctuations in open economy. More specifically, the course explores IS-LM and aggregate demand-supply (AD-AS) open economy models. Based on the models, the aim is to analyze the short- and long-term effects of demand management policies in an environment of international policy interdependence. In addition, the institutional framework of economic policy is presented, with reference to both demand-side (monetary, budgetary and financial policies) and supply-side policies.
The objective is to give students theoretical principles about the fundamental dimensions of financial markets and operations. Information about common practices in financial markets will also be provided.
The aim is to endow the students with:
1. Theoretical skills needed for future studies.
2. Practical skills for those who wish to enter the labor market.
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge needed for the analysis of a diverse range of Business Cases . It is expected that by the end of the course the students are able to:
a) identify problem (s) present in the business case
b) critically analyze the context in which the company operates by appropriate databases and methodologies
c) identify alternative solutions to the problem (s) identified and provide the best solution to be proposed by using appropriate decision criteria
d) analyze the financial and organizational impacts of the proposed recommendation;
e) submit an implementation plan;
f) identify key risks given the proposed recommendation.
g) present their proposals orally in clear and conving way.
The course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to understand the phenomena of globalization of markets and of production that currently characterize the world economy. As well as provide students with the ability to evaluate the impact of trade policy on the economy and on its multiple stakeholders.
The aims of this subject is to inform the students – prospective employers and employees – of the legal framework of the Labour Market, in particular the Individual Labour Contract, allowing them to give a qualified performance in their professional activities. Considering the entry into force of the Portuguese Labour Code (December 2003), a special attention will be given to the new legal framework of the Labour Contract and to the Portuguese Jurisprudence related to that Labour Contract.
The course provides students with a set of specific economic methods that enables them to understand the health system in general, and, in particular, the operation of health care providers. The course also provides an introduction to management models of healthcare providers.
To provide undergraduate students, considering the available time and background study, with ample and integrated knowledge about the way monetary policy is able to attain economic policy goals, in the context of closed and open economies, in view of the applicable institutional context. Towards that, the necessary emphasis will be given to monetary policy instruments and its transmission mechanism in the underlying economic theories’ framework.
Students should learn the main concepts and models of economics and social policy and understand the importance and potentials of social economy and different regimes of welfare state. Students should also be able to analyse issues of inequality, poverty and exclusion and the need for compatible social policies. Students should be able to identify topics and methodologies essential to understand economics and social policy, being provided with information regarding the Portuguese, European and international contexts.
It is intended that students develop skills to understand and evaluate the company's main objective - value creation - and how decisions about the sources and financing instruments as well as on the distribution of its results may contribute to this goal.
Studying the Portuguese tax system and the personal and company income taxes.
The main goal of this unit is to propose an introductory framework of cultural economics, cultural management and cultural sociology, and of their interdisciplinarity when approaching the cultural sector.
The course is aimed to give students the economic and financial tools for decision making on investment projects.
Innovation is one of the most important economic and business phenomena of our time. This course presents students with a solid understanding of the economic fundamentals of innovation, emphasizing two complementary approaches to innovation: micro and macroeconomic. Thus, it considers the training of the student in a broader framework of interpretation of phenomena of economic dynamics, at the level of companies, technologies, sectors and the economy.
This UC analyzes the links between Economics and the
Environment, which are fundamental today and have an
increasing relevance. The behaviors of the various
economic agents involved are analyzed, as well as their
consequences. The main methods of environmental
assessment are explored. Environmental policy strategies
to internalize environmental externalities are analyzed.
The purpose of the course is to help students understand how labour markets work. It is intended to provide students with analytical tools and empirical data that contribute to understanding the behaviour of agents and institutions in the labour markets and their uniqueness vis-à-vis other markets in which microeconomics is concerned.
The study of international economics can be divided in two parts: “International Trade” and “International Monetary Economics”. This course will focus on the later, the monetary side of international economics, that is, the financial transactions. We will study financial crises and monetary unions, during which we will be able to address the current important issues that are the recent global financial crisis and the difficulties that the eurozone has been facing. We will also study the theories and the behaviour of exchange rates, exchange rate policy and the functioning of the international monetary system. It is the aim of this course to maintain a strong link between theory and practice.
Regional and Urban Economics aims to introduce space in economic analysis. It will give students new concepts and tools that allow them to deal with space in economic analysis, and to understand the role of cities and regions in the economy.
The objective of this course is to provide students with advanced and updated knowledge, both at theoretical or practical level, in the area of Corporate Finance.
The Modern Finance is based on the theories of utilities, preferences, the mean-variance, the "capital asset pricing model", the "arbitrage pricing theory", the "financial signs", positive information, the justification of regulations as well as the Modigliani-Miller theorem.
Thus, initially, we present the different risks to which companies are exposed, being devoted to each practically one chapter. In a second phase the risks are quantified. Finally, instruments are used, strategies, traditional markets and new markets (derivatives).
In this context of uncertainty, it plays a central role the financial information, the concepts of return, risk, financial balance, the theorems of capital structure, dividend policies and the models of valuation and management of variable income securities.