Course 2007-2008 a.y.

8289 - INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS AND COMPETITION POLICY


MM-LS - OSI-LS - AFC-LS - CLAPI-LS - CLEFIN-LS - CLELI-LS - CLEACC-LS - DES-LS - CLEMIT-LS - CLG-LS - M-LS

Department of Economics

Course taught in English

Go to class group/s: 31
MM-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - OSI-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) - CLEACC-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - DES-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLEMIT-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLG-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - M-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI)
Course Director:
MICHELE POLO

Classes: 31 (II sem.)
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 will compare the Italian, the European and the US approach to anti-trust policy, and it will discuss prominent Italian and international anti-trust cases.


Course Content Summary

  • Competition policy: history, objective, and the law
  • 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

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

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


Textbooks

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

For further and continuously updated information consult the  IEP web site or contact  S.I.D. - Servizio Informazioni Didattica - Institute of Economics - via Gobbi, 5 - Room 313.

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