Undergraduate Studies
Academic Year 2025-26
Household Finance
Files and Links
- Course Outline .pdf (Greek)
- Course Outline .pdf (English)
- Full Description @courses.xrh
- Link to e-class
6th or 8th Semester
ΧΡΗΝΟΙ
Course id
7,5
ECTS
General Background
Course type
Knowledge
Students are expected to acquire theoretical knowledge focusing on the household’s basic financial behaviour (saving, borrowing) and how this behaviour affects decisions regarding current and future consumption, as well as the decision to participate in the labour market.
Skills
Students are expected to develop skills in solving constrained optimization problems, evaluating investment opportunities, and making intertemporal consumption choices based on income and other constraints.
Competencies
Students are expected to be able to manage issues related to the optimization of intertemporal choices under constraints.
- Decision making
- Independent work
- Project planning and management
- The consumer’s economic conditions
- Consumer behaviour and the labour market
- Consumer behaviour and financial markets
- Consumer behaviour and goods preferences
- Economic conditions and preferences – The optimization problem
- Default as part of consumer behaviour
- The optimization problem with more than one constraint
