| Center |
| Faculty of Economics |
| Departament |
| Economic Analysis |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Theory class attendance and practical class work. 40% of the final mark will be obtained by means of a project determined by the lecturer. Coordinator: JOSÉ JORGE SEMPERE MONERRIS |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination (60%) and project work (40%). Both have to be passed independently. |
| Bibliografia |
| Buigues, Pierre, Alexis Jacquemin y André Sapir eds. European Policies on Competition, Trade and Industry. (Edward Elgar, 1995) Cabral, L., Economía Industrial. MacGraw-Hill, 1997. Jacquemin, Alexis. , La Nueva Organización Industrial. (Ed. Vicens Vives, Barcelona, 1989) Motta, Massimo, Competition Policy, Cambridge Univ. Press 2004. Shepherd, W.G., The Economics of Industrial Organization. (4th. Edition, Prentice-Hall International, London, 1997). Shy, O., Industrial Organization. Theory and Applications. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1995. Tirole, J., La Teoría de la Organización Industrial. Ariel, Barcelona, 1990. |
| Continguts |
| PROGRAM: I. Introduction: Microeconomic Policy and Regulation. Topic 1. Introduction Topic 2. Regulation of monopolies. II. Competition Policy. Topic 3. Competition Policy. Topic 4. Restrictive Agreements. Topic 5. Abuse of Dominant Position. Topic 6. Merger Control. III. Other Aspects of Micro-economic Policies. Topic 7. Horizontal Policies: R & D support. Topic 8. Deregulation, liberalisation and competition. |
| Objetius |
| Lectures are devoted to the understanding of the tools and objectives of competition policy and the insicence of such a policy on firms' behaviour. In order to achieve this goal, several analytical tools from Industrial Organization are used. There will also be lectures where several examples and cases are considered. |
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