00052L - INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

courses

ID:

00052L

Duration (hours):

48

CFU:

SSD:

ECONOMIA APPLICATA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/CORSO GENERICO Year: 3

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (11/02/2026 - 18/05/2026)

Course Objectives

The objective of the course is to provide students with the theoretical and technical tools needed to: understand firms’ organizational and market choices; identify and analyze the ways through which firms’ competitive strategies interact with market structures and assess such iterative process. Particular attention is paid to factors such as incomplete information, transaction costs, mechanisms used by firms to move the competitive pressure to elements other than prices; deepen the ways of public intervention in the economy to deal with market failures. EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING At the end of the course students will possess the information and cognitive tools for: -the assessment of the competition level as well as of the sectoral efficiency performance levels - the assessment of the impact of firms’ behaviours on the competition level of the sector which they belong to - evaluate the effects of firms’ strategic behaviours APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING At the end of the course students will be able to: - identify/develop connections between microeconomic views of the behaviour of single firms and the competitive features of the sector which they belong to - apply theoretical and applied knowledge to the identification of the main criticalities related to imperfect competition. COMMUNICATION SKILLS The following communication skills will be acquired by students at the end of the course: - properly use the economic terminology - rigorously outline and discuss the mathematical relations underlying the models studied.

Course Prerequisites

None.

Teaching Methods

Frontal classes. Frontal classes will revolve around the theoretical topics and will be held by the teacher, with the occasional participation of business experts. Attendance is on a voluntary basis, but it is strongly encouraged.

Assessment Methods

The exam will consist of a written and an oral test. The written test will consist of 12 multi-choice questions, 3 essay questions to be answered within a maximum number of words, and a written essay in which the student will be asked to analyze specific aspects of a topic. The total score for the written test is 33 marks. The test paper will explain how the marks are distributed, based on the relevance/complexity of each question. The final mark of the written test will be given by the sum of the partial scores obtained. The written test will last 60 minutes. The oral test will consist of 3/5 questions aimed at verifying the knowledge of the material referred to, the communicative skills, the judgement autonomy and the comprehension skills. Particular attention will be given to the language used, at the capacity to establish links between different topics, and at the ability to critically interact on topics proposed by the examiner. The oral test will be judged with a score on 30. The final result will be given by the average of the marks obtained with written and oral test. For students that will have participated in group works, the exam will include also the discussion of the work done. The score obtained in this discussion will be considered in the definition of the final marks.

Texts

Carlton e Perloff, Organizzazione Industriale, 3a edizione, McGraw-Hill, 2013. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19.

1. Introduction to the industrial organization 2. The firm and its costs 3. Perfect competition 4. Monopolies, monopsonies and dominant firms 5. Cartels 6. Oligopoly 7. Monopolistic competition and product differentiation 9. Price discrimination 10. Complex methods for price setting 11. Strategic behaviour 12. Vertical integration and vertical restrictions 19. Antitrust Laws and Policy.

Course Language

Italian

More information

E-mail: marialisa.mazzocchitti@unich.it The office hours for students will be announced when the schedule of the lessons will be established. During periods outside regular teaching, student office hours are on Thursdays from 10:00 to 13:00. Please contact the instructor in advance via email. Students can also request an appointment via email for an in-person or remote (via Teams) meeting.