Programme

Part One. Basic concepts. The European System of Economic Accounts (ESA). ESA 2010 innovations. Aggregate accounts (current accounts, accumulation accounts, balance sheets) and broken down (input-output table as accounting reference scheme). Statistical measurement of factors of production (capital and labour).

Part Two. Index Numbers: construction methods and properties, index numbers of production, prices. Production measurement and productivity, estimation of production function. Territorial analysis of economic-productive phenomena. Definitions and measures of poverty.

Core Documentation

Part One.
Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 1, 2 cap. 5 § 5.1 § 5.2 § 5.5
Renato GUARINI e Franco TASSINARI, Statistica Economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000: cap. 4, §§ 1 e 2, 3.1 (a) e (b)

Exercises for the written test:
Esercizi e soluzioni relativi alla parte prima, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007

Supplementary teaching materials for Part One:
Schemi e appunti di contabilità nazionale secondo il nuovo sistema europeo, a cura di Mazziotta C., Di Palma F., De Castris M., 2006.
“La rilevazione dello stock di capitale” a cura di Mazziotta C., Magazzino C., 2005.
“I coefficienti tecnici nella tavola input-output”, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
“Le principali novità del Sec 2010”, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.

Part Two.
Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 3, 6
Renato GUARINI e Franco TASSINARI, Statistica Economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000:
cap. 12, § 6

Exercises for the written test:
Esercizi e soluzioni relativi alla seconda parte, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
Dispense integrative relative alle lezioni della parte seconda:
L’analisi della povertà: concetti e metodi, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
Analisi statistica dei dati territoriali, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.

N.B.Supplementary teaching materials are available from the copy shop 4Appunti, via Chiabrera, 174, tel. 06.59605579.

Reference Bibliography

Raymond W. Goldsmith A Perpetual Inventory of National Wealth, New York, NBER, 1951. Amartya K. Sen La diseguaglianza. Un riesame critico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992.

Type of delivery of the course

Lessons and exercises will be held in the classroom and computer lab. Part of the exercises will be dedicated to the knowledge of online statistical sources, to automatic processing tools for the calculation and for the presentation of an economic analysis with the help of power-point slides.

Attendance

Students can attend the lessons or study autonomously. Lessons cover the same topics for all students who take the examination.

Type of evaluation

SUMMER SESSION 2019/20 June-July 2020- HEALTH EMERGENCY COVID-19 WEB-BASED EXAMINATION In the period, June-July 2020, due to the emergency measures imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, a 1-hour exam (written test) will be administered through the Moodle platform of the course. Students who pass the test can participate in the oral examination. The examination consists of a written test on the first part of the programme and an oral test on the whole programme. The written test, together with the oral test, will help determine the final grade. The passed written test will be valid only for the summer session a.y. 2019/20. The written test consists of exercises and open questions. The duration of the written test is 1 hour. Only students with a grade equal to or higher than 18/30 on the written test will be admitted to the oral exam. The written test will be uploaded to the Moodle platform in the quiz section. The oral test consists of questions on the scheduled topics aimed at verifying knowledge of concepts, definitions, classification systems, statistical reference sources and statistical tools for statistical measurement of economic phenomena. The final grade takes the written and oral results into account. Students who have taken and passed the written test in previous session examinations will only take the oral test. NORMAL CONDITIONS- EXAMINATION CARRIED OUT IN THE CLASSROOM The examination consists of two written tests, one for the first part of the programme and another for the second part, followed by an oral test to verify the results of training obtained. The second part may alternatively also be supported orally in the same day or in another day. The written tests, together with the oral test, will help to determine the final mark. The oral examination will be taken during one of the examination sessions. The written tests passed are also valid for the exam sessions of the following academic year. The written test consists of exercises and open questions. The exercises concern the determination of the value of economic aggregates, index numbers or statistical reports according to the topic addressed. The student can prepare himself by using the exercises booklet and also following the exercises in the classroom. The open questions require the student to illustrate statistical-economic concepts and definitions adopted by official statistics as well as the analytical formulations that allow to proceed to the statistical measurement of the phenomenon. The duration of the written test is 1 hour and 30 minutes. Only students with a mark of 18/30 or more in the written test will be admitted to the oral test. The oral test consists of questions on the scheduled subjects aimed at verifying the knowledge of concepts, definitions, classification systems, statistical reference sources and statistical tools for the statistical measurement of economic phenomena. The overall final mark is given by the average of the marks from the written and oral parts. The students attending the course can take a written test of verification on the first part of the program during the teaching period and present a project of statistical analysis in the classroom that will allow you to get up to two thirtieth more for the final grade. Students who do not attend can take the exams during the sessions.