Course # 37110 Section Number 1 Day(s) W Time(s) 4:30pm-7:20pm Term Fall 2024 Specialization Markets & Regulation Course Instructor Sean Durkin Syllabus Syllabus 9/6/24 This course presents an economic analysis of monopoly power and efforts to limit monopoly power through competition policy. The course will focus on helping students understand the theoretical rationale for competition policy and on providing students with an understanding of the practice of competition policy by examining recent prominent public and private antitrust actions. The first part of the course is devoted to an economic analysis of the welfare implications of monopoly power. The second part provides an overview of the legal and institutional framework of competition policy enforcement with particular emphasis on how the framework differs between the US and the EU and other countries. The final part of the course will address three types of anticompetitive conduct that represent the bulk of competition policy enforcement: collusion, vertical contracting practices, and horizontal and vertical mergers. This section will present detailed studies of recent antitrust actions in the US including the enforcement actions against Apple, Google, and Facebook. Quarter Title Instructor Day(s) Time(s) Syllabus Fall 2024 Competition Policy: Theory and Practice Sean Durkin Wednesday 4:30pm-7:20pm Syllabus Recent News More news Alumni Profile: Astrid Garcia, MPP’23 Thu., June 05, 2025 Q&A: Professor Steven Durlauf on DEI Policies, Racial Injustices, and the Trump Administration Wed., June 04, 2025 Alumni Profile: Kenneth Zalke, MPP’23 Thu., May 29, 2025 Upcoming Events More events Civic Leadership Academy 2026 Virtual Information Session Wed., June 18, 2025 | 12:00 PM Get to Know Harris! Public Sector Scholarship Fri., June 20, 2025 | 12:00 PM Harris Summer Campus Visit Mon., June 23, 2025 | 10:00 AM Harris School of Public Policy 1307 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637 United States