- Docente: Elias Carroni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/06
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Management (cod. 8842)
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from Nov 08, 2022 to Dec 06, 2022
Learning outcomes
This course aims at building an understanding of how macroeconomic and industry conditions determine the evolution of the global economic environment. The focus is highly applied. It relies on analyzing and understanding economic and industry data
Course contents
This Course will deal with Regulatory economics. The following topics will be covered.
- Introduction
- Alternatives to regulation
- Optimal pricing
- Incentive regulation
- Natural monopoly regulation
- Regulation in potentially competitive markets
Readings/Bibliography
M. Motta; Competition Policy - Theory and Practice. Cambridge, 2004.
W. K. Viscusi, J. Harrington Jr., D. E. Sappington; Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, MIT Press 5th Edition, 2018.
Further references will be provided when needed.
Teaching methods
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 together with the first total exam in January. Together with another partial exam on the Behavioural Economics module (approximately end of October), the mid-term exam will determine the final mark (average, rounded up). After that exam, students will be allowed to sit for the total (B.E. + I.O.) exam only.
Teaching tools
Slides
Office hours
See the website of Elias Carroni