ECON 761

Empirical Industrial Organization

Spring 2012
 


 

Where? When?

·             Time:

o   Wednesdays, 8:30-11:00 (main lecture)

o   Every two Mondays (more or less), 8:30-10:00 (computational lab)

·             Room:

o   SOC SCI 4308 (W)

o   Morton room (M)

 

 


 

Syllabus

 


 

Lecture Notes:

·             Demand for differentiated goods

·             Single agent dynamic discrete choice models:

o   Patent renewal

o   Optimal replacement

o   CCP Estimation method

o   Stock-piling

o   Learning and experience good

·             Dynamic games and models of industry dynamics:

o   Industry dynamics

o   Repeated games and collusion

o   Estimation of dynamic games

 

Problem Sets:

·             BLP problem

·             Dynamic game problem