Course 2009-2010 a.y.

8289 - INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS AND COMPETITION POLICY

MM-LS - AFC-LS - CLAPI-LS - CLEFIN-LS - CLELI-LS - DES-LS - CLG-LS - M-LS - IM-LS - ACME-LS - EMIT-LS

Department of Economics

Course taught in English

Go to class group/s: 31

MM-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - AFC-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLAPI-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLEFIN-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLELI-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - DES-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLG-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - M-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - IM-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - ACME-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - EMIT-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI)

Course Director:
ANGELO MARCELLO CARDANI

Classes: 31

Instructors:
Class 31: ANGELO MARCELLO CARDANI

Course Objectives

The course aims at equipping students with tools to interpret the economics of competition policy intervention. Moreover, the course compares the Italian, the European and the approach to anti-trust policy, and it discusses prominent Italian and international anti-trust cases.

Course Content Summary

Competition policy: history, objective, and the norms
Market power and welfare: introduction
Market definition and the assessment of market power
Collusion and horizontal agreements
Horizontal mergers
Vertical restraints and vertical mergers
Predation, monopolization and other abusive practices
State Aids

Textbooks

M. MOTTA, Competition Policy. Theory and Practice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, last edition.

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

The exam will be in written form.
Students may take the exam either in two parts: a 1^st partial exam and a 2^nd partial exam, or as one general exam at the end of the course.