MN30447: Antitrust & strategy
[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]
Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take MN20012 OR take MN20747 or equivalent. |
Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, students should have an enhanced appreciation of law and the economic issues of antitrust cases and should be able to analyse the competitive and regulatory environment of a case or an industry and its implications for business strategies and competition policy in the wider context. Students should have also developed the reasoning and communication skills required for future business managers, consultants and lawyers in dealing with business strategies and antitrust cases. |
Aims: | This unit aims to encourage students to critically analyse broad legal and economic implications of corporate strategies by examining antitrust/anti-competitive cases. By the end of this unit, students should have developed a wider understanding of how certain business practices or strategies would be influenced by the anti-trust regulation and how/why such regulatory practices may be justified on economic efficiency grounds. |
Skills: | Critical and analytical thinking, and an appreciation of the practical application of the theoretical concepts. Ability to communicate the understanding and the outcome of the analysis in non-academic styles for lay audiences. (F/A). |
Content: | 1. The objectives of competition policy
2. Industry structure, collusion and welfare 3. Collusion detection and remedy 4. Market dominance 5. Merger analysis Other content may vary from year-to-year to accommodate notable contemporary issues, but is likely to include: 6. Tying and exclusion 7. Vertical restraints 8. Networks |
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MN30447 is Optional on the following courses:School of Management
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