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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Antitrust Regulation and Competition Policy in the CR and the EU

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 114-0508/01
Abbreviation ATRC
Course title Antitrust Regulation and Competition Policy in the CR and the EU
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Economics
Course coordinator Ing. Ivana Jánošíková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Brief syllabus:
1. Introduction to Antitrust regulation
2. Competition and monopoly, various concepts of the competition, economic efficiency
3. Oligopoly
4. Restrictions of the economic competition
5. Monopolization and price discrimination
6. Theory of regulation
7. Natural monopoly and economic regulation
8. Contemporary approaches to the antitrust regulation
9. EU Competition Policy – Antitrust
10. EU Competition Policy – Mergers
11. EU Competition Policy - State Aid and Public Procurement

Literature

1. ARMENTANO, Dominick T. Antitrust policy: The Case for Repeal. Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn 2007. ISBN 978-0-945466-25-3
2. BALWIN, Robert and CAVE, Martin. Understanding Regulation. Theory, Strategy and Practice. Oxford University Press. New York, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-877438-9 
3. 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. ISBN 1933550996 
4. STIGLITZ, Joseph E. Economics of the public sector. W. W. Norton, Incorporated, 2015. ISBN 0393925226 , 9780393925227

Advised literature

1. BALWIN, Robert, CAVE, Martin and LODGE, Martin. The Oxford Handbook of regulation. Oxford University Press. New York, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-956021-9 
2. 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
3. VISCUSI, W. Kip, HARRINGTON, Joseph E., VERNON, John M. Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. ISBN-10: 0-262-22075-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-22075-0
4. PÉREZ-ARRIAGA, Ignacio J. Regulation of the Power Sector. Springer Science & Business Media. London, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4471-5033-6 .