Institutional design usually allots competition policy at the central level: the State or the supra-national organizations are responsible for well-functioning markets, reform of traditionally monopoly-based sectors, prevention of abuses of dominant positions, control of mergers and undue economic aids that may distort competition. Yet the competition central policy very often boils down at much lower levels, due to the typical political and regulatory twists existing among local institutions (e.g. Municipalities, Counties, Regions, federal States), in particular as far as it clashes/meets with administrative jurisdictions and local authorities in the enforcement phase. The course intends to outline the framework of problems relating to competition policy and local regulation, setting the right stage to cope with the peculiar challenges of this sometimes troubled relation, in a context of fruitful osmosis between different cultural contributions and case studies.

Language: English

Contact: Fulvia Nada

Turin School of Local Regulation

@ Fondazione per l’Ambiente

Via Maria Vittoria 38 | 10123 Torino - Italy

Phone: +39 346 8910600

email: [email protected]