37297 - Industrial Organization

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business and Economics (cod. 8965)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students are able to understand firm behavior at the strategic level for what concern pricing, market equilibrium, investments and innovation. The course will introduce studnets to studying organisational issues related to incentives and agency theory.

Course contents

Part 1: presentation of the course, background, perfect competition

Part 2: Monopoly and price discrimination

Part 3: Strategic interaction, game theory, oligopolistic markets

Part 4: Non price-competition, entry barriers, collusion, advertising, R&D

Part 5: Antitrust and regulation.

Readings/Bibliography

L. Pepall, D. Richards, G. Norman, Industrial Organization, 4th or 5th ed., Blackwell, 2008.

Except: 4.5 (means section 5 of chapter 4); 7.5.2; 7.6; Appendix to ch. 8; 10.3; 10.5; 11.1; 11.2; 12.2.2; 13.2; 13.3.1; 13.5; 14.3; 14.4; 15.3; 15.5; 15.6; 16.3; 16.4; 16.6; Appendices to ch. 16; 17.3; 17.6; 18.4; 18.5; 19.6; 21.2; 21.3; 21.6; 22.5; 22.6; 23.3; 23.7; ch. 24; 25.; 25.4. 

Teaching methods

Standard front teaching.

Assessment methods

Mid-semester written exam and final written exam. Exams include questions and exercises.

Students can reject the grade obtained at the exam once. To this end, he/she must email a request to the instructor within the date set for registration. The instructor will confirm reception of the request by email within the same date.

Teaching tools

The textbook and exercises.

Office hours

See the website of Flavio Delbono