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2014/2015 KAN-CJURV1071U Advanced EU Competition law and Industrial Economics II - study group
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| Advanced EU Competition law and Industrial Economics II - study group |
Course information |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Quarter |
| Course period | Autumn |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc/MSc in Business Administration and
Commercial Law, MSc
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| Coordinating secretary: Susie Lund Hansen - slh.jur@cbs.dk | |
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| Last updated on 26-06-2014 | |
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| The aim of this course is to conduct a deepened
examination of current issues of EU Competition Law taking into
account the underlying economic principles and wider policy issues
together with the teachers and practitioners in the field.
The aim is to enable the students to: • obtain a comprehensive knowledge of these fundamental competition law areas • be able to identify and explain the basic legal concepts of the subject area • select, formulate and discuss examples that are sufficiently complex to reflect these current antitrust problems • identify legal issues in concrete examples, and to argue and propose measures to meet legal requirements • explain the economic substance of specific industrial economic concepts that are applicable in a competitive economy such as market power, welfare, tacit collusion, vertical restraints, and mergers • describe and rationalize the main assumptions of competitive economic models such as Cournot model, Bertrand model with differentiated products, multiple (or dynamic) games, and the basic monopoly model • illustrate the contents of such models graphically and perform simple analyzes such as related to a given competitive economic problem • assess how a given competitive situation needs to be analyzed economically. • identify legal and economic problems in concrete examples, legally argue for the settlement of these problems involving economic theory to illustrate the problems or their preferred solutions. |
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EU competition law plays today
a central role in society and in the everyday life of many
companies and legal and economic practitioners. The aim of this
stand-alone part II of the Advanced EU Competition Law and
Industrial Economics course is to conduct a deepened examination
of some specific current issues of EU Competition Law
taking into account the underlying economic principles and wider
policy issues. For example, the Telecom regulation under both
general competition law and sector specific regulation will be
discussed. This will be done also by discussing these issues with
practitioners experts in these fields. Moreover, Ii also offers a
comparative perspective, frequently referring to the way antitrust
law in the USA deals with similar problems.
The industrial economic theories crucial for understanding these issues will be analyzed and discussed, in particular the theories which are used to change the content of the current legal doctrine. Thus, the specific legal doctrine and industrial economy theories on the sources of market power, the definition of the relevant market, horizontal agreements and mergers, predation and abuse of dominance will be scrutinized. The specific current issues that will be discussed are, for example, price and non-price abuses (non-access and tying); the identification of the relevant market from an economic and legal perspective; horizontal agreement such as cartels, standardisation agreements, and patent pools, in-depth analyses of mergers og private actions. There will be lectures, where students are expected to participate actively, and case-based teaching. In addition to this, there will be a field trip to the Danish Competition Authority and to a prominent law firm. |
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| Lectures with some case-based teaching | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Changes in course schedule may occur
Tuesday 13-30-15.10, week 43-50 The study group has 16 lessons |
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| Expected literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brenda Sufrin (2014) EU Competition Law – Texts,
Cases & Materials, 5 udg., Oxford University Press, in addition
to selected cases and articles.
Massimo Motta (2004) Competition Policy – Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press. Bruce Lyons (Ed.) (2009) Cases in European Competition
Policy – The Economic Analysis, Cambridge University Press
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Last updated on
26-06-2014