Competition Economics

This course explores the economic analysis of market competition, firm behavior, and the role of competition policy. It covers theoretical models of market structure, strategic interactions among firms, and make reference to many real-world examples. Topics include notably standard models involving exogenous market structure, quality and advertising, mergers and cartel.

By the end of this course, students should be able to :

• Understand how different economic features (related to e.g., market structure, product characteristics or information) impact firm strategy and market outcomes ;
• Use those models to analyse real-world markets and decode or anticipate firm strategies.

Modalités : Mixte : CC + CT
SESSION 1 :
Contrôle Terminal
• Type : Écrit
• Durée : 2h00

Régime Dérogatoire
• Type : Écrit
• Durée : 2h00

SESSION 2 :
• Type : Écrit
• Durée : 2h00

Utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle : 
For homework, use of Artificial Intelligence software is permitted but a student using IA must mention how and when he/she used AI. Whatever the use, a student using AI is fully responsible and accountable for the AI-generated content as if it were its own content. He/she must be able to fully understand, explain and source any type of content be it AI-assisted or not. He/she has to be aware that AI-generated content may include plagiarism, which is strictly forbidden.

Detected violation of this rule will imply penalty.

For written exams (midterm or final term exams), use of any type of AI is strictly forbidden. Violation of this rule will result in prosection before the disciplinary committee 

©Eric Darmon 
3/4 of the University Paris Nanterre.

microeconomics (perfect and imperfect competition) ; 
game theory (simultaneous and sequential games with perfect information) ;
mathematics for economists (calculus, optimization, equation solving)

• (reference textbook) Belleflamme, Paul, and Martin Peitz. Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Cabral L. M. B., Introduction to Industrial Organization, 2nd edition, MIT Press, 2017

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