MARKET DYNAMICS AND INDUSTRY EVOLUTION

The course will focus on the analysis of Markets and Industries in in an international and dynamic perspective, with a focus on reassessment and reflection in light of GVCs

1) Conoscenza e comprensione
Acquisire i concetti base dell’economia industriale in ambito in ternazionale.
Conoscere i principali modelli di analisi dell’economia industriale ed internazionale.
Conoscere e considerare criticamente le principali politiche economiche in materia di innovazione tecnologica e politica industriale.
Conoscere e saper utilizzare i dati relativi al contesto internazionale in ambito industriale.
2) Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione
Utilizzare i concetti appresi per interpretare l’evoluzione dei sistemi economici industriali internazionali, delle politiche pubbliche, delle strategie delle imprese, della regolamentazione dei mercati relativamente all’economia industriale internazionale.
3) Capacità di giudizio
Saper formulare e argomentare ipotesi interpretative sullo sviluppo delle tecnologie e dei conseguenti effetti sugli agenti economici
4) Abilità comunicative: lo studente deve saper sintetizzare in modo efficace e coerente le conoscenze acquisite.

Conoscenza base di micro e macro-economia

I. Market analysis and Industrial economics. Review of some basic economics
II. Internationalization of production
III. Global Value Chain
IV. National and International Industrial Policy
V. Topics

Grossman, G. M., & Helpman, E. (2015). Globalization and growth. The American Economic Review, 105(5), 100-104.
Verouden V. (2004), Concentration Indices and Market Shares in the EU Horizontal Merger Guidelines, FTC and U.S. DOJ Merger
Enforcement Workshop, Washington, DC, February 17-19, 2004.
Perry, M.K. ‘Vertical Integration: Determinants and Effects’, in Schmalensee, R. and R. Willig (eds) Handbook of Industrial
Organization, volume 1. (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1989).
Kumar, Krishna B., Raghuram G. Rajan, and Luigi Zingales. What determines firm size?. No. w7208. National Bureau of
Economic Research, 1999.
Lafontaine and Slade ‘Vertical Integration and Firm Boundaries: The Evidence’, Journal of Economic Literature (2007) 45(3),
pp.629–685.
Ralston, Peter M., et al. "A Structure–Conduct–Performance Perspective of How Strategic Supply Chain Integration Affects Firm
Performance." Journal of Supply Chain Management 51.2 (2015): 47-64.
Iammarino, Simona. "Transnational Corporations and International Production. Concepts, Theories and Effects." Regional
Studies 47.2 (2013): 296-297.
Gereffi, Gary. "The global economy: organization, governance, and development." The handbook of economic sociology 2
(2005): 160-182.
Aitken, B.J. and A.E. Harrison (1999) “Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Direct Foreign Investment? “American Economic Review,
89:3, 605–618.
Blomstrom,M. and F. Sjoholm (1999) “Technology Transfer and Spillovers: Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?”
European Economic Review, 43:4–6, 915–923.
Kugler, M. (2006) “Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Within or between Industries?” Journal of Development
Economics, 80:2, 444–477.
Gereffi, Gary; John Humphrey and Sturgeon, Timothy. 2005. “The Governance of Global Value Chains.” Review of International
Political Economy. 12(1): 78-104.
Gereffi, Gary, John Humphrey, and Timothy Sturgeon. "The governance of global value chains." Review of international political
economy 12.1 (2005): 78-104.

Optional: Armstrong, Mark, and Robert H. Porter, eds. Handbook of industrial organization. Vol. 1,2 and 3. Elsevier, 2007.

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Lezioni frontali, seminari, workshops