ECON 4470 - Industrial Organization, Regulation, and Antitrust Economics

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ECON 2106.
Description
The theory of government regulatory and antitrust policies and their effects on the competitive performance of the economy and the behavior of individual firms and industries. Specific topics include an economic and some legal analysis of mergers, price discrimination, predatory strategies, tying contracts, resale price maintenance, cost-benefit studies, product and worker safety, the environment, and deregulation issues in telecommunications, transportation, and other industries, with special emphasis on modern landmark cases and the role of economics in affecting public policy.