- Docente: Flavio Delbono
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea in Economics and finance /economia e finanza (cod. 8835)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
The aim of this course is to provide students with a general and base knowledge of modern industrial organization based on strategic interaction among firms and consumers. Students will learn the functioning of the markets by analyzing the behavior of non-competitive firms, also with the tools of modern game theory. Industrial policies and regulation will be discussed together with the principles of competition policy.
Contenuti
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 regulatory instruments
Testi/Bibliografia
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; 25.3; 25.4.
Metodi didattici
Standard front teaching.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Given the ongoing emergency period, the exam will be oral and individual on the Teams platform. It will last approximately 20 minutes. Rules about the carrying out of the exam will be lelivered in due time in my notice-board.
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.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Textbook and exercises.
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Flavio Delbono