Seminár k politikám hospodárskej súťaže
- Credits: 3
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 3
- Faculty of Economics and Finance
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
• The student understands the causes of market power like vertical or horizontal differentiation. She/he learns the institutional framework of competition policy in the Slovak Republic and EU and the process of policy creation. The student knows primary literature, and with the accent on teamwork, she/he analysis most seminal theoretical and empirical papers within the field.
Competences:
• Student is competent applied theoretical economical knowledge in public administration and regulation practice.
Skills:
• Through presentations and group worksShe/he gains competences in using simple quantitative methods to identify market power, market concentration, and partial identification of market competition.
Indicative content
1. The short introduction to the history of competition policy
2. The institutional framework of competition policy in the Slovak Republic and EU
3. Main areas of competition policy
4. Market power
5. Causes of market power
6. Introduction to horizontal differentiation
7. Introduction to vertical differentiation
8. Indicators of market power
9. Market concentration
10. Indicators of market concentration
11. Identification of relevant market
12. Empirical models for marker power and profits identification.
Support literature
Cabral, Luis MB. Introduction to industrial organization. MIT press, 2017.
Pepall, Lynne, Dan Richards, and George Norman. Industrial organization: Contemporary theory and empirical applications. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Belleflamme, Paul, and Martin Peitz. Industrial organization: markets and strategies. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Motta, Massimo. Competition policy: theory and practice. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Requirements to complete the course
Evaluation during the semester and homework 100 %
Student workload
Total study load 78 hours
Seminars 26 hours
Preparing for seminars and seminar homework 26 hours
Preparing for evaluations during the semester 26 hours
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak
Date of approval: 10.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 17.02.2022