114-0338/01 – Antitrust regulation and competition policy (PRO)
Gurantor department | Department of Economics | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Ivana Jánošíková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Ivana Jánošíková, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of this course is:
- to understand the role of regulatory policy,
- to describe problems of deregulation and privatization
- to explain the purpose of regulation in public utility according to an analysis of the natural monopoly concept,
- to discusse general institutional issues of regulatory process and the possibility of application the EU regulatory practices in conditions of the Czech Republic.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
In this course the role of regulatory policy and problems of deregulation and privatization are discussed. It is focused on the role of economic theory in public utility regulation and analysis of the natural monopoly concept. There are discussed general institutional issues of regulatory process and the possibility of application the EU regulatory practices in conditions of the Czech Republic.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
K zápočtu student zpracuje prezentaci na určené téma a odprezentuje ji ve výuce. Zápočet může být hodnocen max. 30 body. Poté následuje písemná zkouška hodnocená max. 70 body. Student k uzavření předmětu musí získat aspoň 51 bodů z celkových 100 bodů.
Studenti s ISP mají shodné podmínky.
E-learning
Studijní opory TpB:
https://lms.vsb.cz/course/view.php?id=73959
Other requirements
Student has to get at least 51 % of the maximum 100 %. In this – maximum 30 % for elaboration and presentation of projects on the given topic, and maximum 70 % for writing the final written quiz.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to the theory of regulation
2. Competitive market structure - different approaches
3. Monopoly and price discrimination
4. Measurement of economic inefficiency of monopoly
5. Oligopoly
6. Measuring industry concentration
7. Forms of distortion of competition
8. Protection of competition in the Czech Republic - cartels, mergers and acquisitions
9. Protection of competition in the Czech Republic - public procurement
10. Protection of Competition in the Czech Republic - State Aid
11. Theory of regulation
12. Theoretical and practical approaches to antitrust regulation
13. Economic regulation and natural monopoly
14. Practical methods of price regulation
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction