Industrial Organization

This is a topics course in industrial organization intended for MA students. The focus of the class is to familiarize students with the way economists in academic, antitrust regulatory and private sector settings approach research questions related to topics such as conduct, pricing, competition or ownership and control in various market structures (e.g., homogenous product, differentiated product, two-sided, vertical markets). The goal of the course is threefold. For each of the market structures considered: (i) familiarize you with the foundational economic theories; (ii) provide you with the empirical tools you can apply in the future to conduct your own research; and (iii) introduce to you key antitrust issues regulators have been focusing on and approaches used in practice to analyze these issues by antitrust economists.