114-0438/01 – Antitrust regulationa 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
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.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
semestral project
E-learning
Studijní opory TpB:
https://lms.vsb.cz/course/view.php?id=73959
Other requirements
final written exam test
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
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