- Docente: Emanuele Bacchiega
- Credits: 8
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Maurizio Mussoni (Modulo 1) Emanuele Bacchiega (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business Economics (cod. 0909)
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student knows the fundamentals
of firm behavior. In particular he/she will be able to analyze the
structure of the firm as well as the constraints and incentives
that govern it, to analyze and evaluate the behavior of the firm as
a function of the market in which it operates and its short- and
long-run choices.
Course contents
Module 1: Maurizio Mussoni
Basics
1 - Industial Organization: what, how and why.
2 - Basics of Microeconomics.
3 - Market structure and market power.
4 - Technology and production costs.
Monopoly power in thory and practice.
5 - Monopoly price discrimination: linear pricing.
6 - Monopoly price discrimination: non-linear pricing.
7 - Variety and quality under monopoly.
Module 2: Emanuele Bacchiega
Oligopolistic competition
1) Quantity and price competition.
2) Anticompetitive strategies.
3) Contractual relationships among firms.
4) Non-price competition.
5) Regulation.
Readings/Bibliography
Lynne Pepall, Daniel J. Richards, George Norman e Giacomo Calzolari, Organizzazione industriale, McGraw-Hill, Milano, last edition.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written exam
Office hours
See the website of Emanuele Bacchiega
See the website of Maurizio Mussoni