Tentdatum

Handboksinformation

Mål

The course prepares students to carry out industry and competition analysis. Topics considered are:
- Management (of firms) in industries exhibiting strategic interaction between firms
- Implementation of competitive strategies to create above-normal returns
- Strategic commitments to create competitive advantage
- Development and use of sustainable market power
- Strategic delegation and optimal firm organisation
- Market dynamics: R & D and network externalities
- The economics of network industries
- Dynamics of industry restructuring
- Interactions with technology policy, industrial policy, competition policy and trade policy
- Outsourcing versus in-house production

Undervisningsspråk

English

Förkunskaper

The course Prisbildning och marknader/Mikroekonomisk analys (intermediate
microeconomics) is recommended

Undervisningstimmar

56 h

Undervisningsformer

Lectures and exercises with student presentations

Litteratur

Cabral, L (2000): Introduction to industrial organization. MIT Press.

Stödlitteratur:

Lyons, B (ed.) (2008) : Cases in European Competition Policy: The Economic Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Examination

Written examination and term paper

Examinator

Stenbacka, Rune