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POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY
The Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia (UEA) is delighted to
offer a Postgraduate Certificate qualification in Competition and Regulatory Policy. The
course is designed to provide the core economic foundation for professionals practising
in competition law, applied economic regulation and related policy. The course is offered
in close collaboration and with the support of the UEA’s Norwich Business School, School
of Economics and the School of Law. The course is intended for professionals who are
seeking to deepen their understanding and capacities with respect to competition and
regulatory policy. Students study a variety of topics that can enhance their skills for case
work, government or advisory decision making.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAMME
The course offers 8 modules in Competition and Regulatory Policy. Students will select
their 6 preferred modules and complete an assessment per module to obtain the Post-
graduate Certificate, awarded by the University of East Anglia. Students may also attend
modules on a credit-only basis, taking as few or many as suits their professional needs.
METHOD OF DELIVERY
Delivered online, each module will last six weeks and is designed to allow full-time working
professionals to study on a part-time basis. The modules are taught by a team of leading
international academics in the field of Competition Policy, Industrial Economics and Law.
The core program will run on a standard academic year, from late September onwards for
12 calendar months. The certificate can be completed in either 1 or 2 years, depending on
the student’s pace of study.
POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY
POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY
COURSE DIRECTORS
Sean Ennis and Farasat Bokhari
CCP is the UK’s leading inter-disciplinary centre focused on competition, regulation and
consumer policy. Since the Centre was founded in 2005 by Steve Davies, Morten Hviid,
Bruce Lyons and Catherine Waddams, it has conducted independent policy-relevant
research, organised bespoke professional development and provided specialist events
such as conferences, workshops and seminars. The CCP is a joint effort between the
Schools of Economics, School of Law, Norwich Business School and School of Politics,
Philosophy and Communications. We bring together experts, government officials and
practitioners from the fields of business, economics, law and political science to create
and communicate high-quality research. The Centre and its members have offered
professional training and specialist seminars on Competition and Regulatory issues to
national and international entities, including the UK’s Government Economic Service,
BEIS, CMA, DCMS, Ofcom, Ofgem, Ofwat and competition authorities from outside
the UK. The Postgraduate Certificate in Competition and Regulatory Policy marks the
first University-awarded degree offered through the Centre as part of its professional
training portfolio.
TIMING
Applications for September cohort are now open. Entry points are also available
in January and April. General enquiries can be made to [email protected]
ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR COMPETITION POLICY (CCP)
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POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY
The postgraduate certificate is primarily aimed at working professionals in competition
and regulation, with cases and examples drawn from many jurisdictions. It would benefit
people in the following situations:
• Competition authority officials who wish to enhance and refine their skills and
capacities, particularly with an option to learn about both existing and newer
areas of practice
• Regulatory officials who want to understand relevant economic theories, develop their
empirical skills and comment on empirical techniques used in matters before officials
• Economic consultants wishing to enhance and refine their skills and capabilities
• Professionals with an economics, mathematical or data-oriented background
wishing to enter the field of competition and regulatory policy
• Government department officials with a responsibility for topics related to
competition and economic regulation
• Researchers who wish to better understand practical questions
of importance to practitioners in competition and regulation
HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT?
After taking this course, you will have an understanding and capacity to apply
best practice economic techniques and analysis to competition law investigations,
regulatory decision-making and company strategy on competition and regulation.
This can create enhanced professional opportunities for:
• Competition authority and regulatory officials
• Economic consultancy
• Private company compliance and policy units focused
on regulation and competition policy
• Think tank and research centre work with an applied focus
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS?
Core Industrial Organisation.
How are different elements of industry structure and contracting practices related to
demand and welfare? What are the types of situation in which market power arises and
is exercised? How does this impact welfare and innovation? These and other related
questions will be addressed by this module. This module covers mid- to advanced-level
topics in industrial organisation. In covering these topics, the objective is to cover the key
topics to provide theoretical underpinnings for understanding regulatory and antitrust
issues and help understand the importance of incentive compatibility and participation
constraints. Specific areas of focus will include traditional topics such as foundations of
demand, monopoly and oligopoly models, vertical and horizontal product differentiation,
entry deterrence, and predation and advertising.
Special Topics in Industrial Organisation.
This module will build on topics covered in the Core Industrial Organisation module,
with a narrower but more in-depth focus. Potential topics are described below. Much of
the module will cover subjects with direct relevance to networks and platforms, such as
new developments in vertical restraints, competing marketplaces, multi-sided markets
and Most Favoured Nation clauses. The module may look at the challenges policymakers
face when asked to investigate price discrimination and why concerns about algorithmic
pricing and collusion may be overplayed. Contemporary debates about the approach
of competition authorities to merger analysis and developments in EU State Aid rules
may also be explored. The insights gained will provide participants with the ability to
meaningfully engage with recent and future competition cases of significance that they
may encounter through their work. (Core Industrial Organisation is a prerequisite or
approval from the instructor).
Core Statistics.
This module is designed to help students understand statistics, and probability theory
and to learn to explore, compute and understand summary statistics from empirical
observations. The focus will be on those elements of applied statistics that are repeatedly
called for in a legal and regulatory setting, including antitrust. Main topics will include
means, variances, correlations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, distributions,
hypothesis testing and introductory econometric topics including linear regressions and
estimating probability models. The class could also provide introduction and training in
statistical software such as Stata or R.
MODULE OVERVIEW
(Students must successfully complete 6 of 8 modules for the Postgraduate Certificate)
Empirical Industrial Organisation.
This module will build on the basic techniques mastered in the first class and will focus on
econometric techniques that allow for causal inferences. Topics will include panel datasets,
difference in difference estimators, propensity score matching methods, logit and probit
methods, and instrumental 2-variable models. The purpose will be to allow students to
confront and test their theories successfully with real world data, with a particular focus on the
types of applications that are needed for legal and regulatory settings, including antitrust,
and understanding on how to interpret results. (Core statistics is a prerequisite or approval
from the instructor).
Digital Policy.
As business reliance on digital platforms increases, government interventions in the digital
aspects of economic activity are also rapidly evolving. These interventions fundamentally alter
business opportunities and responsibilities. This module will develop your understanding of
actual and potential future government regulation on the internet, including international
differences, providing you with insights on what regulations are set up and why. Topics
covered will include market power in platforms and ecosystems, personalised pricing and
cartel risks, mergers and merger remedies, rating and choice sites, tax, privacy, news,
consumer protection and privacy. These insights will provide value through better
understanding of private and government constraints, and improved ability to design
digital policies and strategies in response.
Behavioural Policy.
This module will explore the implications of behavioural economics for competition policy,
consumer policy and regulation. It will examine the main behavioural heuristics and biases
that are relevant to market outcomes, links between them, and will discuss the available
evidence supporting the existence of these biases. It will investigate from a theoretical
perspective, drawing on behavioural industrial organisation literature, how these biases
might be expected to affect consumer outcomes. It will then consider the policy and
practical case implications of this, as well as implications for remedy design. The focus will
be on consumer biases, but supply-side biases will also be considered. The module will
also provide an introduction to empirical techniques for assessing behavioural biases, and
tools to address them, using laboratory experiments or randomised controlled trials.
MODULE OVERVIEW
(Students must successfully complete 6 of 8 modules for the Postgraduate Certificate)
POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY
Regulatory Economics.
This module will focus on the core elements of regulatory economics underlying
oversight of natural monopolies. The module will begin with a discussion of natural
monopoly and other market failures that may justify regulatory intervention, with a
focus both on ensuring investment incentives are maintained while consumers are
appropriately protected from monopoly power. Topics covered will include definition
and application of market failures and other rationales for government intervention
(such as financial stability’ health and safety, reducing risks, public goods, externalities),
financial analysis of profits and margins, calculating weighted average cost of capital,
distinguishing potentially competitive activities from monopoly activities, forms of
structural separation, rate of return regulation, benchmark regulation, price cap
regulation, maintaining incentives for individual decision-making, vulnerable consumers,
paternalism and unintended consequences of government action and competition,
and debt-equity ratios for regulated companies.
Competition and Regulatory Law.
This module aims to enable participants to consolidate their knowledge of competition
rules and discuss some of the main problem areas that pose difficulties for competition
analysis in practice. Each teaching session will consist of a presentation of the relevant
area of law with subsequent discussion of cases or critical papers. Participants are
encouraged to prepare material for each session to actively participate in the case/paper
discussion. The module will cover all main areas of competition law analysis including
Articles 101 and 102 TFEU, Merger control, market investigations, remedies and relevant
procedural aspects.
MODULE OVERVIEW
(Students must successfully complete 6 of 8 modules for the Postgraduate Certificate)
Farasat Bokhari: Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.
Farasat is an industrial organisation and health economist with expertise in
applied econometrics and health policy analysis. His research interests include
competition, antitrust, and technologies in hospital and pharmaceutical
industries. His current research is focused on various strategies adopted by
pharmaceutical firms to prevent generic entry (e.g., pay-for-delay, launching
authorized generics, product hopping, product proliferation and de-branding).
He also works in areas of outcomes research and research methods in health
care and has organised competition authority economics training. Farasat
received his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz School
at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Prior to joining UEA, he taught at King’s
College London (Dept of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences) and Florida
State University (Department of Economics), and before that was a post-
doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (School of Public Health).
Sean Ennis: Professor of Competition Policy in the Norwich Business School and Director of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.
Sean has extensive experience in government work and competition law and
policy. Previously, he was a Senior Economist in the Competition Division
of the OECD. For two years, he was Executive Director of the Competition
Commission of Mauritius, where he was the chief executive in charge of
running Mauritius’ independent competition authority. Prior to that, Sean
worked as an economist at the European Commission’s DG Competition and
at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, developing economic
analyses for competition law investigations. Sean has been involved in
competition law and regulatory training around the world and
in proceedings including with the European Commission, the U.S.
Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
LECTURER PROFILES
Amelia Fletcher: Professor of Competition Policy in the Norwich Business School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.
Amelia’s academic work focuses on competition policy, consumer policy
and sector regulation, with a particular focus on behavioural economics and
digital markets. Amelia has a DPhil and MPhil in economics from Nuffield
College, Oxford. She has been a Non-Executive Director of the Financial
Conduct Authority (2013-20) and Payment Systems Regulator (2014-20)
and Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading (2001-2013). Amelia is
a Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority, a
member of the Enforcement Decision Panel at Ofgem, and a member of
DG Competition’s Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy. She was
recently a member of the HM Treasury-commissioned Digital Competition
Expert Panel, which reported in March 2019. She was appointed OBE in 2014
and CBE in 2020.
Kai-Uwe Kuhn: Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.
Kai-Uwe Kühn has advised on all aspects of competition matters for 25 years.
He has served as the Chief Economist of DG Competition at the European
Commission. Prof. Kühn spent most of his academic career at the University of
Michigan prior to joining UEA. His research includes theoretical, experimental,
and empirical industrial organization covering a wide range of topics including
durable goods, vertical integration, vertical restraints, market foreclosure, the
impact of credit constraints on market behaviour, as well as collusion and the
coordinated effects of mergers. It has been published in leading journals like
the Journal of Political Economy, the Rand Journal of Economics, the American
Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and the Journal of the European Economic
Association. He has been the co-editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics.
He has wide-ranging and frontier-leading experience with complex antitrust,
cartel and merger cases across jurisdictions.
LECTURER PROFILES
Franco Mariuzz: Associate Professor in Econometrics in the School of Economics and member of the Centre for Competition Policy, at the University of East Anglia.
Franco obtained his Bachelor degree in Economics and Commerce from the
University of Venice and a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from
Venice International University. He completed his Doctorate in Quantitative
Economics in 2004 at the University of Venice. He collaborated on the
first wave of SHARE: Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
in 2004. Prior to UEA, he covered the position of contract lecturer at the
Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin (2004–2007); postdoctoral
research position at the Department of Economics and Econometrics of the
University of Groningen (2007–2008); research associate position at Geary
Institute, University College Dublin (2008–2011). His industrial organisation
research experience is extensive, with an emphasis on quantitative
techniques. He has prior experience teaching in a programme of
economic training for competition authorities.
Sebastian Peyer: Associate Professor in Law and member of the Centre for Competition Policy, at the University of East Anglia.
Sebastian has a German and English legal background, having graduated from
the University of Potsdam (Germany) and obtaining an LLM and PhD from UEA.
Sebastian has widely published on the private enforcement of competition law
and his work has been cited in the UK Government’s consultation on options for
the reform of private antitrust actions. His research interests include competition
law, tort law, law and economics and empirical legal studies. Sebastian serves
as the Vice-Chair on the American Bar Association (ABA) Scholar in Residence
Selection Committee. He was a visiting scholar at Georgetown Law School with
a grant from the ABA Section of Antitrust Law. Sebastian has extensive teaching
experience in tort law, competition law, law and economics and EU law.
He has prior professional teaching experience participating in judges’
training programmes in Ireland and Europe.
LECTURER PROFILES
POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY
Morten Hviid: Professor of Law and member of the Centre for Competition Policy, at the University of East Anglia.
Morten Hviid is a professor of law specialising in competition law, contract law,
tort law and the economics approach to law. He is a founding member of the
Centre for Competition Policy. Morten holds an MA and a PhD in Economics
from University of Warwick as well as an economics degree from University of
Aarhus, Denmark. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre
for Business Research, Cambridge University, the Registered Experts Advisory
Group of the UK Intellectual Property Office and the UK energy regulator
Ofgem’s academic panel.
Elias Deutscher: Lecturer in Competition Law and Intellectual Property and member of the Centre for Competition Policy, at the University of East Anglia.
Dr Elias Deutscher is a Lecturer in Competition Law and IP at the University
of East Anglia Law School and a research member of the Centre for
Competition Policy (CCP). Elias’ area of research covers competition law,
the interplay between competition and intellectual property law, and
general EU law. The focus of his research lies on the normative, historical,
and economic foundations of EU and US competition law, as well as the
new challenges for competition law and policy in the digital era. Elias has
published on merger control in digital markets, the interplay between
competition law and privacy, as well as the democratic functions of
competition law. Elias’ current research projects include the proposed
regulations of digital platforms at the EU and UK level, merger control in
mobile telecommunication and innovation markets, and vertical online
restraints. Elias also works on a forthcoming monograph on the
relationship between competition, competition law, and democracy.
LECTURER PROFILES
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*Teaching may be supplemented by additional guest lecturers on the course and lecturers may be subject to change. Modules may be subject to minimum numbers.
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