ECON 7772 — Public Policy Toward Business
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: springtypical days: MBostonTraditional
Covers the three major facets of public policy toward business: antitrust, regulation, and privatization. Demonstrates how economic theory and evidence are brought to bear on practical questions of market failure and policies to remedy such failure. Topics include mergers, collusion and facilitating practices, predatory conduct, cost of service regulation, price caps and incentive regulation, deregulation, and public enterprise vs. privatization. Policies are analyzed for their rationale, techniques for implementation, and effects as measure in the context of actual experience in the United States and other countries.
Prerequisites
- ECON 7771 (min C-)
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 40% | 6.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 60% | 4.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 25% | 15.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 100% · T 0% · W 0% · Th 0% · F 0%
Common patterns: M (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Spring
- John Kwoka (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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