EEH624 - ECONOMICS of PUBLIC REGULATION and ANTITRUST
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECONOMICS of PUBLIC REGULATION and ANTITRUST | EEH624 | 3rd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | none | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assoc. Prof. Dr. UÄŸur Emek | |||||
| Course objective | The aim of the course is to provide understanding the importance of economics of public regulation and antitrust; to give a practical and a theoretical knowledge in order to analyse the character of market operation and the role for government action and to understand and analyse main notions of public regulations and antitrust. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | In this course the notion of public regulation and antitrust, characteristics of market orientation and the tools of public regulations will be discussed. | |||||
| References | - W. Kip Viscusi, John M. Vernon and Joseph E. Harrington, Economics of Regulation and Antitrust (4th edition), The MIT Press, 2005. - Kemal Yıldırım., Rana Eşkinat, Ali Kabasakal ve Meltem Erdoğan, Endüstriyel Ekonomi, 4. Baskı, Ekin Yayınları, Bursa, 2009. -M. İlker Parasız, Rekabet Ekonomisi ve Düzenlemeler, Ezgi Yayınları, Bursa, 2001. -Orhan Çoban, Endüstri İktisadı ve Oyun Teorisi, Ekin Yayınları, Bursa, 2006. -Yılmaz Aslan, Rekabet Hukuku, Ekin Yayınları, Bursa, 2011. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Public Interventions and Market Performance |
| Week 2 | Industrial Organization, Antitrust Remedies and Turkish Competition Law |
| Week 3 | Market Structure and Efficiency |
| Week 4 | Game Theory, Oligopoly and Collusion |
| Week 5 | Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Week 6 | Monopolization and Price Discrimination |
| Week 7 | Introduction to Economic Regulations |
| Week 8 | Midterm exam |
| Week 9 | Natural Monopoly |
| Week 10 | Liberalization in Electricity Markets and Tariff Regulations |
| Week 11 | Franchise Bidding and Telecommunication Sector |
| Week 12 | Public Enterprise |
| Week 13 | Economic Regulation of Transportation |
| Week 14 | Social Regulations |
| Week 15 | Product Safety |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 40 |
| Final exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 1 | 40 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 5 | 70 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Total Workload | 45 | 65 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Has the ability to access to sources of information, use, compare, interpret, infer and apply scientific data. | X | ||||
| 2. Has the knowledge on science of law and legal systems and the historical development of the rights of individuals and societies and the basic texts adopted in that process, and has the historical knowledge to interpret the achievements of modern law. | X | ||||
| 3. Has the ability to use Turkish in both oral and written forms. | X | ||||
| 4. Masters the provisions regulating the relationships between persons and has the ability to interpret those provisions. | X | ||||
| 5. Masters the provisions regulating the relationships between persons and the state and has the ability to interpret those provisions. | X | ||||
| 6. Has the ability to use information technologies and course materials in the process of teaching and learning. | X | ||||
| 7. Has the ability to solve current legal problems in the framework of modern legal approaches. | X | ||||
| 8. Has a level of understanding and knowledge of the profession in order to reflect all of the features required by the profession in the best possible way at national and international levels. | X | ||||
| 9. Masters the legal regulations and practices on economic and financial mechanisms. | X | ||||
| 10. Has the ability to be able to express herself/himself as an individual and in front of a community. | X | ||||
| 11. Has the ability to use, compare and apply the knowledge of universal law. | X | ||||
| 12. Has the ability to follow legal developments that aim to meet emerging needs within the framework of relations between individuals. | X | ||||
| 13. Has the ability to work together, gained through in-class activities, hypothetical case studies, moot court and through other professional and academic activities. | X | ||||
| 14. Has the ability to understand and process national and international dimensions of law by following the case law and legal practices. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest