Università Roma Tre

The course introduces to the analysis of competitive and non competitive markets and the related business strategies, taking into account the heterogeneity of enterprises behavioral models. We will study at an introductory level the antitrust policy, industrial policies and policies for the regulation of natural monopolies. The applied part of the course is focused on the analysis of the Italian productive structure, also through the examination of the main statistical sources and other institutional and academic reporting

1. Structure-conduct-performance model
2. Market structure and strategies of firms: competition, monopoly, oligopoly, imperfect competition
3. Theory of firm: neoclassical model and other models
4. Concentration and size distribution of firms
5. Competition and collusion. Barriers to entry and potential competition. Price discrimination. Product differentiation. Technical progress and innovations
6. Antitrust policies. Natural monopolies and regulation. Industrial policies
7. Productive structure of the Italian economy: historical backgrounds, recent evolution, points of strength and points of weakness
8. Sources for the analysis of the Italian productive structure

John Lipczynski, John O.S. Wilson e John Goddard, Economia industriale, Pearson Italia, Milano-Torino, 2016
Anna Giunta e Salvatore Rossi, Che cosa sa fare l'Italia. La nostra economia dopo la grande crisi, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2017