02528 - Industrial Economics,,,

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Moduli: Diego Lanzi (Modulo 1) Francesca Barigozzi (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (cod. 0906)

Learning outcomes

The first part of this course provides tools for understanding market structures and firms strategies. The second part provides tools for understanding the activity of antitrust authorities and the principles of competition policy.

Course contents

  1. Market structures
  2. Price competition and non-price competition
  3. Regulation
  4. Vertical integration
  5. Market power and social welfare
  6. Collusion and horizontal agreements
  7. Horizontal mergers
  8. Vertical restraints and vertical mergers
  9. Predation and monopolization

Readings/Bibliography

Oz Shy, "Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications", The MIT Press, 1995. Chapters 1-7
for the first part of the course (lecturer Prof. Diego Lanzi).

M. Motta, "Competition policy. Theory and practice.", Cambridge University Press, 2004, for the second part of the course (lecturer Prof.ssa Francesca Barigozzi).

Assessment methods

The exam is written.

The exam on the competition policy part of the course CAN be divided in two parts.
The first part of the exam is written with open questions. The second part of the exam is an essay in which a group of students presents and discusses a case. For more details see the web-page http://www2.dse.unibo.it/barigozzi/corsi/antitrust/antitrust06.htm

Links to further information

http://www2.dse.unibo.it/barigozzi/corsi/corsi.htm

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Barigozzi

See the website of Diego Lanzi