- Docente: Massimiliano Castellani
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Massimiliano Castellani (Modulo 1) Massimiliano Castellani (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business Economics (cod. 8848)
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from Sep 16, 2025 to Oct 16, 2025
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from Nov 11, 2025 to Dec 11, 2025
Learning outcomes
The Course will provide the student with a working knowledge of the modern Industrial Organization. Upon completion of the Course the student will be able to analyze a market with reference to its main features; assess the effects of industrial and competition policy; interpret through economic lenses the decisions of competition agencies such as the Italian AGCM and the European Commission.
Course contents
- Introduction.
- Some useful microeconomic ideas.
- Market structure and market power
- Technology and production costs.
- Product variety and quality under monopoly.
- Static games and Cournot competition and Price competition.
- Sequential competition.
- Product variety and quality under oligopoly.
- Limit pricing and entry deterrence.
- Predation: recent developments.
- Collusion and repeated games.
- Collusion: how to identify and fight it.
- Networks
- Digital platforms
- Regulation and liberalization
Readings/Bibliography
L. Pepall, D. Richards, G. Norman e G. Calzolari, Organizzazione Industriale, McGraw-Hill, Milano, fourth edition (2023).
Teaching methods
During the lectures will be presented some models of industrial economics and discussed the main issues of industrial policy.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
The graduation of exam scores is the following:
<18 insufficient
18-23 sufficient
24-27 good
28-30 very good
30 e lode excellent
Teaching tools
Video projector, slides, whiteboard.
Office hours
See the website of Massimiliano Castellani