- Syllabus – EconS 594, Fall 2021.
- Student presentations: Tentative schedule.
- October 5th, Suhina Deol, Baye and Morgan (2001), and Church and Gandal (1993).
- October 7th, Dane Franchi, Green and Scotchmer (1995) and Kamien et al. (1992).
- October 12th, Ilhoon Choi, Levin et al. (2009) and Baksi and Bose (2007).
- October 14th, Sahil Patil, Waltman and Kaymak (2008) and Calvano et al. (2021).
- October 20th, Sita Khanal, Delbono and Denicolo (1991) and Barcena and Garzon (2006).
- October 26th, Banguning Asgha, Fluet and Garella (2002) and Aguirre et al. (2010).
- October 28th, Yazeed Aldhafian, Lambertini et al. (2017) and Fikru and Gautier (2016).
- November 2nd, Putriesti Mandasari, Semenov and Todji (2019) and Delbono and Denicolo (1990).
- November 4th, Koroles Awad, Bounie et al. (2021) and Crandall and Winston (2003).
- November 8th, William Ottenheimer, Dery et al. (2021) and Greppi and Menicucci (2021).
- 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.
- 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.
- Homework assignments:
- Homework #1, answer key.
- Homework #2, answer key.