Teaching period

First semester: September 21, 2026 - December 16, 2026

Class hours

Monday: 10.00-12.00, Aula 1D

Wednesday: 14.00-16.00, Aula 1D

Office hours
Please, write to flaviana.palmisano@uniroma1.it to make an appointment. 

Prerequisites

The course is designed for students with good knowledge of microeconomics. 

Programme

Market structures 

Natural Monopoly 

Economic Regulation  

Social Regulation 

Regulation in the health sector 

Safety Regulation and Patents 

The evaluation of life 

Environmental Regulation   

Suggested Readings
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, W. Kip Viscussi, Joseph E. Harrington and John M. Vermon, Fourth Edition, MIT Press. Available at Biblioteca Federico Caffè (https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_ecodir/en/facilities/library)

Public Finance and Public Choice: Analytical Perspectives. John Cullis and Philip Jones, third edition, Oxford University Press . Available at Biblioteca Federico Caffè (https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_ecodir/en/facilities/library)

The Economics of Health and Health Care, Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, Miron Stano, 8th Edition, Routledge. Available at Biblioteca Federico Caffè (https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_ecodir/en/facilities/library)

Lecture slides and readings are provided during the course through Classroom (google suite platform). The code to access the platform will be provided during the courses. Please, register using the institutional e-mail address.    

Topics and readings may be added or deleted as the term progresses. 

The final program will be available at the end of the course. 

Grading

Paper presentation (50% of final mark). Students are required to present a paper to the class. The paper will be assigned at the beginning of the course.  

Written exam (50% of final mark). Students are required to answer two questions among the four that are proposed and that concern only the topics covered during the course. The written exam will last 60 minutes.

Exams schedule

TBA