Organization
The lectures will take place on Monday 10-12am in the seminar room GEREMEK at the IEE. Right now the planned lectures are:
- February: 6, 13, 20, 27
- March: 5, 12, 19, 26
- April: 16, 23, 30
- May: 7
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Official ULB page for the course
Requirements
- Basic notions of economics and industrial organization, as well as some familiarity with the legal aspects of antitrust. Ideally, students should have taken the course DROI-C-513 "Droit européen de la concurrence-- Approches économique et juridique".
- Ability to read, write and talk in English.
Objectives
The main objective of the course is to develop the students' understanding of the economic and legal analysis in competition policy. To do so, each lecture will combine the study of one or two actual cases (mainly taken from European litigation) as well as the analysis of academic papers pertinent to the subject area of these cases.
A typical lecture will proceed as follows:
- A student or a pair of students is in charge of presenting the case(s) (max 30 minutes) and of animating the discussion
- At the beginning of a lecture the student(s) in charge should distribute a one page summary (type "executive summary") to the students and the professors< (please send a pdf of your one page in an electronic fashion to plegros at ulb.ac.be).
- The lecturers, Jean-François Bellis and Patrick Legros, will present, if need be, the economic and legal concepts needed to understand the cases. You will find a short bibliography and links related to the case on this web page; we will also highlight some questions that should probably be discussed during the meeting. Both he bibliography and the questions are indicative only: you should not hesitate to find other data or bibliographic sources and come up with your own questions.
- A general discussion will then be opened.
- It is crucial that all the students read the documentation in order to participate in the discussion.
The course will therefore require an active participation of the students, and your presentation as well as your participation during the classes will count for half of your final grade. Depending on the way the seminar A final exam may be organized depending on the participation of the students during the seminar.
