Antitrust regulationa and competition policy

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	114-0438/01
Abbreviation	PRO
Course title	Antitrust regulationa and competition policy
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Economics
Course coordinator	Ing. Ivana Jánošíková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to the theory of regulation
2. Competitive market structure - different approaches
3. Monopoly and price discrimination
4. Measurement of economic inefficiency of monopoly
5. Oligopoly
6. Measuring industry concentration
7. Forms of distortion of competition
8. Protection of competition in the Czech Republic - cartels, mergers and acquisitions
9. Protection of competition in the Czech Republic - public procurement
10. Protection of Competition in the Czech Republic - State Aid
11. Theory of regulation
12. Theoretical and practical approaches to antitrust regulation
13. Economic regulation and natural monopoly
14. Practical methods of price regulation

E-learning

https://lms.vsb.cz

Literature

BALWIN, Robert and CAVE, Martin. Understanding Regulation. Theory, Strategy and Practice. Oxford University Press. New York, 2010.
ROTHBARD, Murray N. and SALERNO, Joseph T. Man, Economy and State with Power and Market, Scholar’s Edition. 2nd edition. Ludwig von Misses Institute. Auburn, Alabama, 2011.
STIGLITZ, Joseph E. Economics of the public sector. W. W. Norton, Incorporated, 2015. , 9780393925227

Advised literature

MOSS, David A. and CISTERNINO, John A. New Perspectives on regulation. The Tobin Project, One Mifflin Place, Cambridge (USA), 2009. ISBN 978-0-9824788-0-6
PÉREZ-ARRIAGA, Ignacio J. Regulation of the Power Sector. Springer Science & Business Media. London, 2013. .
VISCUSI W. Kip, HARRINGTON Joseph E., Jr. and SAPPINGTON David E. M. Economics of Regulation and Antitrust. 5th ed. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2018. .

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