- Syllabus – EconS 594, Fall 2022.
- Schedule of student presentations.
- Presentations of published articles:
- Endogenous Horizontal Product Differentiation under Bertrand and Cournot Competition: Revisiting the Bertrand Paradox (Brander and Spencer, NBER 2015), slides.
- Endogenous Horizontal Product Differentiation in a Mixed Duopoly (Liu et al., RIO 2021), slides.
- Market signaling with grades (Dailey and Green, JET 2014), slides.
- False Modesty: When Disclosing Good News Looks Bad (Harbaugh and To, JMathEcon 2020), slides.
- Globalization and Multiproduct Firms (Nocke and Yeaple, IER 2014), slides.
- Multiproduct-firm Oligopoly: An Aggregative Games Approach (Nocke and Shutz, Ecta 2018).
- Slides:
- Chapter 3, Static imperfect competition.
- Chapter 4, Dynamic imperfect competition.
- Chapter 5, Product differentiation.
- Chapter 6, Advertising.
- Literature review (Handbook of Industrial Organization, Bagwell), Link.
- Chapter 8, Group and personalized pricing.
- Liu and Serfes (2004). Link.
- Chapter 9, Menu pricing.
- Chapter 14, Cartels and tacit collusion.
- Chapter 15, Horizontal mergers.
- Chapter 16, Strategic incumbents and entry.
- Strategic pre-commitment, Link.
- Chapter 19, Intellectual Property.
- Practice exercises in Industrial Organization: You can find more practice exercises in my book Industrial Organization: Practice Exercises with Answer Keys, with Pak-Sing Choi and Eric Dunaway. Link.
- Research and presentation resources:
- Short book “A Guide for the Young Economist,” MIT Press, Link.