| Learning objectives |
The aim of this course is to conduct a deepened
examination of the legal rules of EU Competition Law taking into
account the underlying economic principles and wider policy issues.
The aim is to enable the students to:
- demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the fundamental
competition law areas
- identify and explain the basic legal concepts of the subject
area
- select, formulate and discuss basic examples that are
sufficiently complex to reflect such assignments faced by
practitioners in the field of competition law and economics
- 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 to competition policy
- describe and rationalize the main assumptions of economic
models of competition and monopoly
- use economic models analytically and graphically to illustrate
issues relevant for competition policy
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| Course prerequisites |
| Some knowledge in Competition/Antitrust law
and/or Industrial Economics is desirable. |
| Examination |
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Advanced EU
Competition Law and Industrial Economics I:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Written sit-in exam on CBS'
computers |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
3 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and second internal
examiner |
| Exam period |
Summer |
| Aids |
Open book: all written and electronic aids,
including internet access
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| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Oral Exam |
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Duration: 20 min. per student,
including examiners' discussion of grade, and informing plus
explaining the grade |
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Preparation time: No
preparation |
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Examiner(s): If it is an internal
examination, there will be a second internal examiner at the
re-exam. If it is an external examination, there will be an
external examiner. |
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| Course content and structure |
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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 course is to conduct a deepened
examination of the legal rules of EU Competition Law taking into
account the underlying economic principles and wider policy issues.
Students will upon completion of the course have sufficient
understanding of the subject to practice and research in the field.
The course concentrates on the foundations for the system of rules,
consisting of Articles 101 and 102 of the EU Treaty and the Merger
Regulation, which together are enforced in order to ensure that
‘effective competition’ prevails in EU markets. These legal sources
regulate much business activity using a complex balancing test to
determine whether such activity is lawful competition or unlawful
anti-competitive conduct.
The industrial economic theories crucial for understanding the
reasoning behind competition law will be analyzed and discussed, in
particular the theories which are used to change the content of the
current legal doctrine. Thus, the general 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.
There will be lectures, where students are expected to participate
actively, and case-based teaching.
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| Description of the teaching methods |
| There will be lectures, where students are
expected to participate actively, and case-based
seminars/lectures. |
| Feedback during the teaching period |
| Through oral discussions in class and email
correspondence |
| Student workload |
| Lectures |
32 hours |
| Preparations for lectures |
102 hours |
| Presentations |
15 hours |
| Preparations for the exam |
57 hours |
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| Expected literature |
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Course material
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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