The course examines the causes and consequences of firms’ strategic behaviour under situations in which the assumptions of perfect competition do not hold. The principle objective of the course is to introduce students to the basic concepts of industrial organization and help them understand how industries function, and how firms interact within an industry.
In addition, the course investigates: how firms acquire market power or the ability to affect the price of their product, the strategic behaviour of firms that possess market power, the outcomes of policy interventions in these markets, and topics relating to collusions and horizontal mergers. An equally important objective of the course is to introduce students to the basic concepts of game theory and to the basic microeconomics models used to analyze firms’ strategic behavior in oligopolistic markets, so that students deveop the ability to use well-known methodological tools to analyse oligopolistic markets and predict market outcomes.
It is the only Greek University Department with the objective of training agroeconomists able to meet the demands of this new period in Greek agriculture which was inaugurated with the entry of Greece into the E.U.
