Academic Year 2018/2019
- Docente: Flavio Delbono
- Credits: 9
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- 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