Applied industrial economics (2015/2016)

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Course code
4S02471
Name of lecturers
Angelo Zago, Alessia Campolmi
Coordinator
Angelo Zago
Number of ECTS credits allocated
9
Academic sector
SECS-P/02 - ECONOMIC POLICY
Language of instruction
English
Location
VERONA
Period
primo semestre dal Sep 28, 2015 al Jan 8, 2016.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

The course focuses on relevant topics of industrial organizations, and it is divided into two parts.
A part will introduce the theory of Principal-Agent. The treatment will be rigorous, but particular emphasis will be given to applications.
Another section of the course intends to provide students with rigorous economic tools for the analysis of market structure and market relations. Applications of experimental and behavioral economics to industrial organization will be also discussed.

Syllabus

Markets structures and Organization:
- perfect competition,
- advanced monopoly theory,
- markets for homogeneous/differentiated products,
- collusion.

Principal-Agent and optimal contracts:
- optimal risk-sharing,
- unobservable effort,
- dynamic contracts,
- multitasks.

Recommended reading
• OZ SHY: "Industrial Organization - Theory and Applications", MIT Press 1995. The chapters to study are: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8.
• M. RICKETTS. "The Economics of Business Enterprise. An Introduction to Economic Organization and the Theory of the Firm", Edward Elgar, 3rd ed., 2002, chapter 5.

Further reading
• JEFFREY CHURCH AND ROGER WARE: "Industrial Organization: A Strategic Approach", McGraw-Hill 2000 (downloadable from elearning).
• Additional papers will be distributed during the course.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam & presentation of an article.

STUDENT MODULE EVALUATION - 2015/2016


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