This course deals with some topics in advanced Industrial Organization.
Introduction slides
Part I The economics of Regulation (Reading list and material) [some material is password protected]
Why and what regulation?
Optimal regulation
Competition and Regulation
Regulation in a dynamic setting
"Practical Regulation"
Discretion and regulatory capture
Part II Information and market structure (Reading list and material) [some material is password protected]
Search, Price dispersion, Advertising and E-commerce
Information sharing among firms
Competition with incomeplte information and the value of commitment
You are expected to be familiar with standard material in IO (e.g. Bertrand and Cournot models) as in Mas-Colell et alii (1995) and game theory.
The course will be provided in fifteen hours. A class schedule and additional material will be made available on this website.
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