Ateneo - UPO

The Course aims to promote the comprehension of different models to rule the markets in their historical evolution e in their current european and national discipline. Particularly considered will be the issues concerning the relationship between independent regulation, industrial policy and competition.

F. Trimarchi Banfi, Lezioni di diritto pubblico dell’economia, Giappichelli, 2021

The knowledge of the legal instruments with which public powers regulate and influence entrepreneurial activities and garantee public services is fundamental to understand economical system. The Course aims to supply the essential basis of this knowledge, particularly analyzing the different forms of market regulation and the discipline of economical geneneral interest services.

The first part of the Course is based on the Professor’s lessons. The second part, however will have a seminarial character.

Beyond the textbook previously suggested, the Professor will give students acts concerning jurisprudence and rules. The Professor is available to give student didactic support in his reception hours.

For every student it’s provided an oral examination. Attending students can prepare a brief paper about issues indicated by the Professor,

For attending students: the following topics will be studied in particular: Freedom of private initiative in the Economic Constitution and environmental protection; Independent Administrative Authorities; Publicly owned companies; Economic and social services.
For non-attending students: theoretical models of market discipline. The evolution that has taken place in the last 30 years: from the managing state to the regulatory state. Regulation and competition. Services of general economic interest, liberalisation and pro-competitive regulation and user protection. Universal service and the protection of the security of public service systems. The protection of competition, state aid.

The Course aims to supply the essential basis of the knowledge of markets discipline, particularly analyzing the different forms of market regulation and the discipline of economical geneneral interest services and of financial markets.