Competition Policy and Industrial Organization

Faculty

H. Ohashi

Description

This course introduces students to use of microeconomics for the analysis of competition policies and Industrial Organization. The emphasis in this course is on both intuitive and formal logic of economic principles, a deeper understanding on the impacts of typical policy measures, and an introduction to the use of professional microeconomic tools to assess and weigh these policy impacts. The main goal in this course is to introduce you to internalize the body of microeconomics well enough so that you can analyze competition policies issues.

The course also introduces you to various empirical methods to analyze competition policy issues, such as methods to assess the degree of competition in product markets and auctions, and methods to examine effects of horizontal mergers.

Required Reading :

Competition Policy: Theory and Practice, Massimo Motta, 2004, Cambridge University Press

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