Industry economics

The unit develops and examines the theoretical and empirical relationships between the structure of industries, the behaviour of enterprises and market performance. The fundamental principles are applied to the advanced analysis of various forms of firms' interaction: entry deterrence, collusion, product differentiation, advertising, research and development and pricing strategies. Welfare and policy issues will be discussed with the help of applied theory and empirical research. In this respect, recent journal articles and research reports will be used in analysing conceptual problems and related issues.