14.271 | Fall 2013 | Graduate

Industrial Organization I

Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session

Prerequisites

14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

Course Overview

The course provides a graduate level introduction to Industrial Organization. It is designed to provide a broad introduction to topics that current researchers are studying as well as to expose students to a wide variety of techniques. It will start the process of preparing economics P.h.D. students to conduct thesis research in the area, and may also be of interest to doctoral students working in other areas of economics and related fields. The course integrates theoretical models and empirical studies.

The course presumes that students have a familiarity with micro theory, basic game theory and some econometrics.

Readings

The primary text for the course is:

Buy at MIT Press Tirole, Jean. The Theory of Industrial Organization. MIT Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780262200714. [Preview with Google Books]

The text provides an overview of most of the theoretical topics.

For further detail, go to the Readings section.

Grading

The course will be graded on the basis of seven problem sets, a midterm, and a three-hour final exam.

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