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Industrial Organization

Teaching

Details

Faculty	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Domain	Economics
Code	UE-EEP.00323
Languages	English
Type of lesson	Lecture
Level	Master
Semester	SS-2023

Schedules and rooms

Summary schedule	Wednesday 12:15 - 16:00, Hebdomadaire (Spring semester)
Hours per week	3

Teaching

Teachers	Herz Holger
Assistants	Gomez Martinez Francisco
Description	This course is concerned with the strategic decisions taken by firms in markets, in particular when they have market power. First, we will try to understand what market power is and how firms behave in markets. To do so, the course will introduce the classical models of imperfect competition in markets. In the second part, we will investigate cartels, tacit collusion, and its consequences on welfare and anti-trust policies. One important aspect of anti-trust policy is mergers. Mergers between direct competitors are known as horizontal mergers. We try to understand if and when such mergers are profitable and welfare-enhancing. In the third part, we will investigate how a firm can be a natural monopolist, without fearing entry, and how incumbent firms may behave strategically to make entry for new firms harder, or even unprofitable. In the fourth part of the lecture, we analyse firms with vertical supply chains. Could upstream firms deny competitors access to distribution and supply channels? Lastly, we study applications of behavioral economics on industrial organization and regulatory issues. Here, we discuss potential regulations to protect customers if customers suffer from behavioral biases. Homepage Moodle Link
Training objectives	This course provides an introduction to Industrial Organization. The course will be relatively formal and requires knowledge of microeconomics at least at the level of microeconomics 1 and 2 at the Bachelor level.
Softskills	Yes
Softskills seats	5
Off field	No
BeNeFri	Yes
Mobility	Yes
UniPop	No

Documents

Bibliography

Belleflamme and Peitz (2015), Industrial Organization
Markets and Strategies, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press

Dates and rooms

"This course gives 4.5 ECTS and therefore, 3 hours per week are alloted. We will have lectures from 12.15-13.45 and 14.00-15.30, yielding 4 hours per week. Consequently, in order to compensate for that, the course will not take place in 4 weeks out of the 14 weeks. The detailed schedule is announced on the first day of the course taking place in the first week of the semester."

Date	Hour	Type of lesson	Place
01.03.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
08.03.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
15.03.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
22.03.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
29.03.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
05.04.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
19.04.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
26.04.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
03.05.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
10.05.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
17.05.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
24.05.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230
31.05.2023	12:15 - 16:00	Cours	PER 21, Room A230

Assessments methods

Written exam - SS-2023, Session d'été 2023

Date	07.06.2023 14:00 - 15:30
Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Examination time: 90 minutes

Written exam - SS-2023, Session de rattrapage 2023

Date	30.08.2023 14:00 - 15:30
Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Examination time: 90 minutes

Assignment

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