Tba syllabus graduate industrial organization econ 261 spring 2009 reading list. Structureconductperformance paradigm, structural empirical industrial organization aka new empirical industrial. Noncooperative games for applied analysis 2 lectures 3. Theory of industrial organization yeonkoo che general information. Look at tremblay and tremblay, new perspectives on industrial organization with contributions from behavioral economics and game theory springer 2012. My spring 2020 industrial organization reading list and. Professor pakes research has been in industrial organization i.
Technical drawing is being offered by the council as a separate syllabus under its own cover. Shivaji university ma economics industrial economics. All these are well known labels to address one of the oldest problems in. Industrial organization economics of technology political economy. The handbook of organization economics, princeton university press, 20 tirole, the theory of industrial organization, mit press lectures are based on required readings, marked with an asterick, suggested readings, if you want a broader view, and notes to be covered in the lecture. Apr 26, 2019 industrial organization is a field of economics dealing with the strategic behavior of firms, regulatory policy, antitrust policy and market competition. This book is long and detailed, but it was the standard textbook for undergraduate courses at harvard, stanford etc. This course is the first of three courses in the ph. Economics 615 industrial organization i fall 2005 instructor. Jeffrey church and roger ware, industrial organization.
A standard undergraduate industrial organization textbook. Construction to supersede its industrial arts offerings in the secondary schools. Assignments industrial organization i economics mit. The text that analyzes many game theoretic models in industrial organization. Topics in industrial organization dartmouth college. A strategic approach, 2000 which is now freely available online an electronic copy will be posted.
Horizontal mergers us department of justice, horizontal merger guidelines revised 1997. All these are well known labels to address one of the oldest problems in economics, namely how prices arise in the market when there are few competitors. Health economics 22 industrial organization 22 international economics 22 labor economics 22 microeconomic theory 23 macroeconomics monetary and fiscal policy 23. Industrial organization is the area of economics that studies the markets as institutions, the state of competition and strategic interaction among firms, the industrial policy and the business decisions firms make within the market framework. A strategic approach is, and remains, the property of church economic consultants ltd. The goal of the sequence, and especially the first two quarters, is. Nber researchers new nber affiliates are appointed through a highly competitive process that begins with a call for nominations in january. Empirical approaches to the studies of industrial organization 1 lecture topics. Structureconductperformance paradigm, structural empirical industrial organization aka new empirical industrial organization readings list. These are key questions industrial organization economists seek to answer. It covers theoretical and empirical research related to the design. The topic of the course is to study how markets work when perfect competition is not an acceptable assumption on the supply side. Industrial organization is a field of economics dealing with the strategic behavior of firms, regulatory policy, antitrust policy and market.
Industrial organization is the study of industry and firm behavior. Department exit requirements students are required to complete an exit survey and comprehensive exit exam in economics students should take the exit survey and. Environmental, resource and energy economics industrial organization public economics. As a prerequisite, students should have completed economics 257. Industrial organization econometrics economics of technology market design microeconomic theory. Description industrial organization is a subfield of microeconomics devoted to the study of the structure of firms and markets and of their strategic interactions. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. See also, zamir and teichman, behavioral law and economics oxford 2018 chapters on consumer contracts, corporate contract, antitrust, and regulation. Presentation mode open print download current view. The study of industrial organization adds to the perfectly competitive model by considering realworld frictions such as limited information, transaction costs, costs.
Industrial organization focuses on firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, which appear to be far more common than the perfectly competitive markets that were the focus of your basic microeconomics course. Chapter 1 introduction industrial organization1, industrial economics, oligopoly, imperfect competi tion. Empirical industrial organization ii syllabus prof. It is designed to provide a broad introduction to topics and industries that current. The material is essential for students planning to do research in empirical io, and it will also. The above courses are picked automatically by the website for indicative purpose only. Industrial economics or industrial organizationio is a oneyear course which is one of further units of. However, the course and the lecture slides will go relatively close along the lines of the belleflamme and peitz book. It covers all the theory behind industrial management, plant layout, production planning and control, work and motion study, personnel management and the financial aspects of. Tba syllabus graduate industrial organization econ 261 spring 2010 grading. Introduction to industrial organization 1 lecture 2. Courses economics industrial organization i syllabus. Syllabus for economics 220a industrial organization.
Armstrong, mark and sappington, david, recent developments in the theory of regulation, handbook of industrial organization, chapter 27, also online. The center for the study of industrial organization. He teaches courses in industrial organization and in econometrics. The course looks at the markets from three different perspectives. Your grade is based on a final exam 60% of the grade, a referee report assignment 25% of the grade and an inclass presentation 15% of the grade. University of pennsylvania department of economics econ. It covers all the theory behind industrial management, plant layout, production planning and control, work and motion study, personnel management and the financial aspects of industries.
Ec7115 industrial organization department of economics. Following in the footsteps of these economists, this course will also focus on these three questions. We aim to give a solid grounding in understanding the structure of markets, and the strategic behavior of rms and their. It is designed to provide a broad introduction to topics and industries that current researchers are studying as well as to expose students to a wide variety of techniques. The course and the readings apply price theory and gametheoretic techniques to explain industry structure, conduct, and. The syllabus section provides information about course description and grading.
Static price competition in oligopoly models 2 lectures 6. Syllabus industrial organization and public policy. Graduate topics in industrial organization fall 20 econga. The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the major areas encompassed by industrial organization, focusing on recent empirical studies based on modern theoretical approaches. My spring 2020 industrial organization reading list and syllabus. Industrial organization is the first of a sequence of two courses on the functioning of markets. However, students are requested to check with the university for the similarity of the course or for any other information in regard to the course. The course provides a graduate level introduction to industrial organization. Syllabus for economics 220a industrial organization department of economics, university of california, berkeley overview this is the. University of pennsylvania department of economics econ 235. Candidates are evaluated based on their research records and their capacity to contribute to the nbers. The center for the study of industrial organization provides funding for research assistantships, travel, and data sets, as well as a visitor program that regularly brings to campus the top io researchers in the world. Using the basic tools of microeconomic theory and game theory, this course explores the relationships among firms in an industry or across industries by examining the nature of strategic interaction among firms. Course description in the last few decades, industrial organization has been arguably one of the most active research field in economics.
A concrete example, journal of political economy, 112 2004. The class should also be useful for students working in other applied microeconomics fields who wish to learn about a wide range of approaches to empirical research and some specific methods used in io. The paper can address any issue in industrial economics, but students are highly encouraged to draw from issues covered in the seminar. Syllabus graduate industrial organization econ 261 spring. Industrial organization studies the behavior of firms under alternative market settings. Carlton and perloff 1994 modern industrial organization, harper and collins. Advances in behavioral economics, princeton university press, 2004 no textbook is explicitly required for the course. Syllabus graduate industrial organization econ 261. The second course, ec 7114 antitrust and regulation, deals with ways to improve welfare by creating policy and regulation that improve the performance of markets with imperfect competition.
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