Content (Syllabus outline):

1. Analysis of growth of an enterprise

Neoclassical and post Keynesian theory of enterprise
Specific factors of growth of an enterprise
Analysis of factors of growth of enterprises (production and cost functions, productivity, entrance and exit of enterprises, factors of labour and capital mobility between and within industries and between enterprises)
Analysis of factors of enterprise mobility within and between industries.

2. Contemporary Development of Economics of Enterprises, Industries and Regions

Analysis of efficiency and dynamics of enterprises
Restructuring of enterprises and industries and creative industries
Cohesion and regional development
Competitiveness and local development

3. Global Competition, Trade and Prices

Understanding of global trade
Principles and a general theory of trade and competition
Purposes of free trade and competitive markets
Benefits of free trade and effects of advanced technologies on trade
Analysis of markets and prices, effects of deregulation and liberalisation of markets (market structures, prices, quality of supply and other possible effects on consumer welfare)

4. Labour market

labour supply and labour demand,
search and matching on the labour market,
human capital,
activity, employment and unemployment,
LMIs and macroeconomic performance

5. Theory and analysis of economic growth

Genesis of theories of economic growth
Solow-Swan, Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans, Lucas, Romer, Kaldor-Pasinetti-Robinson, Dixon-Thirlwall
Analysis of real convergence

6. Political economics
Economic policy: economic models of public choice and social choice theory
Institutions: various approaches and models of institutional economics and law and economics at both macro and micro economic level
Homo oeconomicus: recent developments in economic psychology and their implications for economic theory