32422 - Advanced Industrial Economics

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Management (cod. 8842)

Learning outcomes

The course will introduce the student to the study of industrial organization. The goal is an understanding of imperfectly competitive markets and their relationship to the structure of firms, with a special focus on the regulation of real-world competition. The course integrates theoretical models and empirical studies.

Course contents

  • Anticompetitive Behavior.
    • Collusion and Repeated Games.
  • Contractual Relations Between Firms.
    • Horizontal, Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers, and Vertical Price Restraints.
  • Non-Price Competition.
    • Advertising, Research and Development.
  • Special Topics
    • Network Issues.
    • Cultural and creative industry.

Readings/Bibliography

Pepall L., Richards D.J., Norman G. e Calzolari G. ORGANIZZAZIONE INDUSTRIALE, McGraw-Hill, Milano, seconda edizione, 2013. CHAPTERS 15-16-17-18-19
Advanced readings:
Candela  G. e Scorcu A.E. ECONOMIA DELLE ARTI, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2004. CHAPTERS 4-5-6.
A reading list (articles for essays) will be provided during lectures.

Teaching methods

Class lectures

Assessment methods

Written and oral examination.

Teaching tools

During the lectures will be presented the some models of industrial organization and discussed the main issues of industrial policy.

Links to further information

http://www.ateneonline.it/pepall2e/home.asp

Office hours

See the website of Massimiliano Castellani