Course: Economy and regulation

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Course title Economy and regulation
Course code KZP/1ECRE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 15
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • van Koten Silvester, doc. Ph.D.
Course content
After the completion of the course the student will be able: - To identify specific benefits and cost of the regulation and the design the relevant assessment methods, with focus on specific fields of economic policy to analyze different approaches to social targets to be regulated, - To analyze and critically assess the processes and instruments of regulatory interventions, - To identify deviations of real impacts of existing regulation from the envisaged targets and their possible factors, - To design modifications of the existing regulation towards its improvement in the context of targets envisaged, - To apply new means of behavioural economics for the design of regulatory interventions and the public policy in general. Content of the course: 1. Theoretical basics (welfare theory, public choice, social benefits and costs, market failure) 2. Theretical recommendations for the economic policy: regulation and public policies (economic concepts of the regulation, regulatory state, self regulation, metaregulation 3. Analysis of the regulation: cost and benefits of regulation (quality of regulation, competitiveness, enforcement, compliance, regulatory burden) 4. Changes and reforms of the regulation: institutional setting and design (behavioural aspects, global changes) 5. Sected fields of regulation: utilities, energy, environment, climate change, transport

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • DE GROOT, R.S. Functions of Nature: Evaluation of Nature in Environmental Planning, Management and Decision-making. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1992.
  • MACHÁČ, J., DUBOVÁ, L., LOUDA, J., HEKRLE, M., ZAŇKOVÁ, L., BRABEC, J. Methodol-ogy for Economic Assessment of Green and Blue Infrastructure in Human Settlements. Ústí nad Labem: Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy (IEEP), 2019.
  • Mulder, M. Regulation of Energy Markets. New York City: Springer Press, 2021.
  • PERMAN, R., MA, Y., MCGILVRAY, J., COMMON, M. atural Resource and Environmental Economics. Pearson ? Addison Wesley, 2003.
  • SLAVÍKOVÁ, L., VEJCHODSKÁ, E., SLAVÍK, J. a kol. Ekonomie životního prostředí - teorie a politika. Praha: Alfa Nakladatelství, 2012. ISBN 978-80-87197-45-5.
  • VISCUSI, W. Kip, Joseph Emmett HARRINGTON a David Edward Michael SAPPINGTON. Economics of regulation and antitrust. Fifth edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-262-03806-5.


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