Harokopio University
School: School of Digital Technology
Department: Informatics and Telematics
Program: Undergraduate Programme

Economics of Digital Technology

Semester: 5 ECTS: 5.0 Elective Erasmus

General

Code: ΕΠ37

Language: Greek

Delivery: Face-to-face

Prerequisites:

Workload

  • Lectures: 39.0 hours
  • Lab: 0.0 hours
  • Study: 86.0 hours
  • Project: 0.0 hours

Course Content

Basic economic concepts: Model and consumer and producer behavior. Supply and Demand Curves, Market Forms: Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Oligopoly. Indifference curves, income constraint, elasticities, production functions, scale returns, profit maximization, cost curves, economic prosperity, externalities. Complementary and substitute products. Applications and examples from the field of information technology and telecommunications. Introduction to game theory.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic economic concepts and to relate them to the market of Information and Communication Technologies ICT.

Skills

Autonomous work, Adaptation to new knowledge and environments, Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking.