Economics for Competition Law

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MA, PG Dip

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Distance Learning

| Admissions status: Open
STRUCTURE OVERVIEW
Core programme content
Module One:
  • Introduction to Economics of Competition Law
  • Market Power
  • Market Definition.

Module Two:
  • Predation and Excessive Pricing
  • Price Discrimination, Discounts, Tying & Bundling
  • Refusal to supply, Essential Facilities and Margin Squeeze
  • Network Effects and Multi-Sided Markets
  • Cartels and Vertical Restraints.

Module Three:
  • Mergers: Unilateral Effects
  • Mergers: Co-ordinated Effects, Vertical and Non-horizontal Mergers
  • State Aid
  • Quantitative Techniques.

FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT
Compulsory assignments and examination for the Postgraduate Diploma. MA: dissertation.

KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Professor Richard Whish
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
Two years PT (distance learning), October to October.
Location
Distance learning with two weekend seminars in central London.
Student destinations
This programme enables practitioners to further progress in their chosen profession.
Year of entry 2013
Offered by
London South Bank