75975 - Behavioural Economics

Learning outcomes

This course aims at providing students with analytical tools useful to understand and make decisions in conditions of imperfect and incomplete information, risk and uncertainty. Students will learn how to deal with intertemporal choices, strategic interaction and the problems arising from information asymmetry and transaction costs

Course contents

This Course will deal with Competition Economics and Policy. The following topics will be covered.

• Introduction
• Industrial organization tools for antritrust economics and policy
• Market power and welfare
• Collusion and horizontal agreements
• Horizontal mergers
• Vertical mergers
• Predation, monopolisation and other abusive practices

Readings/Bibliography

• M. Motta; Competition Policy - Theory and Practice. Cambridge, 2004.
• Further references will be provided when needed.

Teaching methods

Traditional Lectures.

Assessment methods

Written, closed book, exam, with free-response questions. The maximum mark (all answers correct and complete, with an appropriate level of formalization) is 30 e lode.

Mark scale:

<18 Fail.

18-23 Pass.

24-27 Good.

28-30 Distinction.

30 e lode Great Distinction.

If online, the exams will be held on the EOL platform and will have the same structure.

A non compulsory mid-term exam will be organized indicatively at the end of October/beginning of November. Together with another partial exam on the IO module, the mod-term exam will determine the final mark (average, rounded up). The second partial exam will be together with the first total exam (January). After that exam, students will be allowed to sit for the total (B.E. + I.O.) exam only.

Calculators are allowed.

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Emanuele Bacchiega