The program consists of the study of the following topics of 'Industrial Organization':
1. Firms' objectives and technological constraints (cost curves);
2. The functioning of perfectly competitive markets in the short and long run;
3. Market power: Monopolies, monopsonies and dominant companies;
4. The cartels, their sustainability and their regulation;
5. The oligopoly a là Cournot, Bertrand and Stackelberg;
6. Product differentiation and monopolistic competition. The Hotelling model and the Salop model;
7. Price discrimination of first, second and third type;
8. Complex methods for pricing, bundling, two-part tariffs;
9. Strategic behavior of companies, dumping strategies and limit pricing;
10. Asymmetric information, adverse selection and moral hazard. Markets with informed and not consumers.