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ECONOMICS OF STRATEGIC COMPETITION Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Although no prerequisites are required, it is necessary for the student to master the fundamental concepts of perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly, studied during the Microeconomics course.
Objectives
Extended Syllabus -Industrial Organization: What, How, and Why
- Market Structure and Market Power
- Technology and Production Costs
- Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Linear Prices
- Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Non-linear Prices
- Product Variety and Quality in Monopoly
Static Games and Cournot Competition
- Price Competition
- Competition and Sequential Decisions: Prices, Quantities, and Product Choices
- Price Ceilings and Entry Deterrence
- Predatory Behavior: Recent Developments
- Collusion and Repeated Games
- Collusion: Identification and Counteraction
- Mergers
- Vertical Price-Related Restrictions
- Advertising, Market Power, Competition, and Information
- Research and Development and Patents
- Network Issues and Digital Markets
Recommended Bibliography Pepall L., Richards D., Norman G., Calzolari G. (2023). ORGANIZZAZIONE INDUSTRIALE 4/ED. McGraw-Hill
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods The course consists of fifty-four hours of frontal teaching, divided into lectures of three hours each. The lectures focus on the contents of the textbook. Additionally, there will be moments for discussing the topics covered, including the examination of commentary and journal articles.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The exam is written and comprises three open-ended questions.
Contacts/More Information All course information, teaching material and communications will take place over the e-learning platform.