Market Regulation 2016/2017

3.5 ECTs / Trimester / English

The course provides a broad approach to economic regulation theory and evaluation of  mainstream economic models. The regulatory frameworks of specific industries is analysed, with a critical evaluation of legal and economic concepts and models used in practice in the regulation of several industries in the EU. A new focus will be put on risk analysis, as one important recent area of regulation. Finally different models to perform regulatory impact analysis will be presented and their use in regulatory practice will be discussed.

Pre-requisites: NA

Faculty

Assistant Professor
João Confraria holds a Doctoral degree in Economics (1991, Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Catholic University of Portugal) and a Master in Economics (1988…