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2020/2021  KAN-CJURV1070U  Advanced EU Competition Law and Industrial Economics

English Title
Advanced EU Competition Law and Industrial Economics

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for BSc/MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law, MSc
Course coordinator
  • Marek Giebel - Department of Economics (ECON)
  • Maria Jose Schmidt-Kessen - CBS Law
Fagadministratoransvaret ligger på CBS LAW
Main academic disciplines
  • Business Law
  • Economics
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 26-10-2020

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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
  • explain and critically discuss various theories of competition
  • identify and explain the basic legal concepts of the subject area and how their interpretation by competition authorities and courts have developed over time
  • select, formulate and discuss examples that are sufficiently complex to reflect 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
Course prerequisites
This course presupposes basic knowledge in Competition/Antitrust law and/or Industrial Economics.
Examination
Advanced EU Competition Law and Industrial Economics I:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Please see text below
The exam is a 3 hour-exam. You can hand in as many pages as you like.
Assignment type Written assignment
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and second internal examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

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 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Merger Regulation, which together are enforced in order to ensure that ‘effective competition’ prevails in the EU internal market. 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.
Description of the teaching methods
There will be lectures, where students are expected to participate actively, and case-based seminars.
Feedback during the teaching period
Through oral discussions in class, cases, and quizzes
Student workload
Lectures 33 hours
Preparations for lectures 132 hours
Exercises 15 hours
Preparations for the exam 25 hours
Expected literature

Course material

 

Massimo Motta (2004), Competition Policy Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press.

 

Collection of articles and legal documents posted on Canvas
Last updated on 26-10-2020