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Pagina del corso: 37037 - -ENG Welfare and Market Regulation
Docente/i: Alberto Holly Giuliano Masiero

Note sul corso
Course outline
Welfare and Market Regulation gives students the economic intuition to analyse strategic decisions, antitrust regulation and to evaluate policy recommendations in markets characterized by the significant intervention of public authorities. Competitive markets may be inefficient for several reasons. Consequently, some form of external regulation may improve their performance. How markets can go wrong and how to regulate them when they do are the subject of this course. Part of the course is dedicated to health care markets, which are highly regulated and represent a large part of welfare within modern economies.

Reading material
SHE: R. Sherman, Market Regulation, Pearson Addison Wesley, 2008. (Chapters 1-13, 16-18)
FGS: S. Folland, A. Goodman and M. Stano, The Economics of Health and Health Care, 6th ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2010. (Chapters 8, 10, 14-15, 17-21, 24)
Filippini M., González Ortiz L. G., Masiero G., forthcoming. "Assessing the impact of national antibiotic campaigns in Europe". European Journal of Health Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s10198-012-0404-9

Didactics
Lectures are based on the main textbook (SHE) and other material that will be provided during the course. Students are expected to go through the relevant readings indicated for each class. Supporting slides including the structure and the basic concepts of each lecture are available on this course website. Weeks 6 and 8 include a module of 15 hours on health care financing issues taught by prof. A. Holly.

Evaluation
The evaluation of the course is composed of the grade for the written exam at the end of the semester, a grade for an assignment and homework and classwork exercises. The assignment accounts for 15% of the final grade whereas each set of exercises and classwork provides 0.5 points. The final exam is made of three parts: true and false questions, exercises and open questions.

Final exam evaluation discussion
Thursday 07 March at 14:00, room 4.03 (building C).

Evaluations will be available in the session "Risultati esami" and published by 7 March. Students will have one week (until Wednesday 13 March) to appeal against the examination grade.



Bacheche del corso

Cartella principale

Risultati esami

Programmi del corso

	Anno accademico 2012-2013
	Codice 37037-ENG
	Programma [agg. 03/10/2012]

	Anno accademico 2011-2012
	Programma [agg. 21/10/2011]

Informazioni e materiali didattici del corso