- Docente: Flavio Delbono
- Credits: 2
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Finance (cod. 8835)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to allow students to understand the economics of market regulation, and how this can affect market fundamentals (demand, supply, costs, prices, quality) and then market equilibria. Moreover, students will be able to combine knowledge coming from the modern industrial organization with that coming from modern public economics.
Course contents
1. Natural Monopolies
2. Antitrust and market dominance
3. Regulation in theory
4. Some case studies
Readings/Bibliography
C. Shapiro, "Antitrust in a time of populism", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018;
L. Khan, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox", Yale Law Journal, 2017.
Teaching methods
Traditional front teaching
Assessment methods
Final written exam
Teaching tools
Papers and notes
Office hours
See the website of Flavio Delbono