COMPETITION: ANALYSIS AND POLICY

The Postgraduate Program of the Department of Economics, University of Thessaly is organizing the 7th Conference on Applied Economics from 20th of May to 21st May 2021. Our seventh Conference is devoted to a crucial perennial economic issue “COMPETITION: ANALYSIS and POLICY”. Economic competition describes a condition in which organizations seek to obtain a share in the market, via the best utilization of their tangible and intangible resources. Competition is the central economic assumption of mainstream economics that has offered the ground of critiques, the result of which has been the development of alternative economic modeling referred to markets, from duopoly to monopolistic competition. By the same token, competitive conditions of production and distribution are the principal concern of national and international economic policies all over the world. In that sense, every aspect of policymaking is affected by the pursue of competitiveness: regional, scientific, educational, technical etc