Economics 467

International Industrial Organizations
  FALL 2011
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison


Wed Dec 14 Office hours :
Maria: 11-12 noon
Pedro: 1- 3 pm

 


 

 


Maria Muniagurria                 

Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu      
        6418  Social Science                                                                     
        Phone: 263-3865                                                                           
        Office Hours:  Tu :   2.45-3.45 pm
                                   Th:  1.15 - 2.15 pm (NO Office hours on October 20)

Teaching Assistant:   Pedro Hancevic
      7231 Soc. Sc.
    Office Hours: Mon and Wed 11am- 12
    Email:  hancevic@wisc.edu



Syllabus

Regrade Policy

How to Order Harvard Business School Cases



Class Outlines/Notes
Notes Game Theory
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Exam 1 review
Weeks 5 and 6
Week 7
Week 8 Antidumping in the News
Week 9
Week 11 Week 11 (Th class 11-17-2011)
Nov 22
Week 14
Week 15
Tu Dec 13


Email Archives
All emails (updated December 9)


Problem Sets


EXAMS                                                                              Date                                                        ROOM

      Exam 1   Grade Distribution   Topics/Readings             Tu October 4                                                   Exam Room Assignment
      Exam 2    Topics/Readings                                            Tu November 8                                                Exam Room Assignment 
      Exam 3   Topics/readings                                                                  Th December 15                                              Exam Room assignment

 


 

 


Sample Exams:





THEORY Handouts:

Derivatives Review (from Prof. K.Hansen's Econ 301)
Optimization Review (from Prof. K. Hansen's Econ 301)

Oligopoly Theory /Strategic Trade (third market case)  (Maria's Handout)
 Cournot Isoprofit and Reaction Functions Example  (Camila's Handout)
Handout on Monopolistic Competition (updated 4-2-2010)
Notes on Deardorff's "Welfare Effect of Global Patent Protection" : single country case ( pages 1-9), two countries (pages 10-12)
Notes on Utility Function used in Monopolistic Competition



Electronic Reserves:

            Econ  e- reserves at Soc. Sc. Ref. Library (use access through My UW)



Readings


 Strategic Trade
 
Civil Aircraft Power Point Presentation (based on  European Commission, Tyson, Irwin-Pavcnik), Boeing-Airbus (The Economist, August 2009), more from the NYTimes (Sept 4, 2009(Sept 3, 2009)   September 16 2010(1)  September 16 (2)
Additional readings:
           NBER Working Paper 8648 : Airbus vs. Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft market by D.       Irwin and N. Pavcnik
          
European Commission Site more

Dumping and International trade

The Worldwide Spread of Antidumping Protection by Meredith Crowley, Chicago Fed Letter, January 2004.

R&D, Innovation and IPR

Welfare Effects of Global Patent Protection by Alan Deardorff, economica, Vol. 59, No 233 (Feb. 1992). Having trouble click here for alternate access
What's mine is yours (The Economist, May 2009)

Intellectual Property Protection and Medicines by J. Bhagwati, The Financial Times 2002
Letter to the Financial Times on IPP by J. Bhagwati, February 2001


Brazil and Pharmaceutical Companies (COHA analysis, July 2005)
Brazil and IPR (very complete links from Consumer Project on Technology))
Brazil's Anuencia Previa /TRIPS (Murphy)Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study of Quinolones in India", Shubham Chaudhuri and Pinelopi K. Goldberg and Panle Jia", NBER Working Paper December 2003  http://www.nber.org/papers/w10159

IPR's CAFTA/ Guatemala
Consumer Project on Technology: Health and IPR
(specific countries + other)
Pharma Production India and China (NYTimes September 2011)

Keith Maskus,   Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy, IIE, 2000 (pdfs of the chapters are at the end of the linked page)

Intraindustry Trade and Monopolistic Competition
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography, Paul Krugman,The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 99, No. 3. (Jun., 1991), pp. 483-499 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3808%28199106%2999%3A3%3C483%3AIRAEG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade , Paul Krugman ,The American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 5. (Dec., 1980), pp. 950-959. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282%28198012%2970%3A5%3C950%3ASEPDAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H

Variety, the spice of life, has a measurable value. But it's not easy to determine NYTimes 6-17-04

 


Dumping and International trade

The Worldwide Spread of Antidumping Protection by Meredith Crowley, Chicago Fed Letter, January 2004.

 

Technology Transfer

 

Tariffs, Technology Transfer and Welfare  by R. Feenstra and K. Judd, JPE, Vol. 90, Dec. 1982.

 

Firms and International Trade

Firms in International Trade, Bernard, Jense, Redding and Schott  (2007)

World Bank International Study Group on Exports and Productivity (Summary Report 2009)
The Emergency of New Succesful Export Activity in Latin America: The Case of Chile (IDB 2009)

 
Multinational Firms/FDI

Expansion Strategies of US Multinationals Gordon H. Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, Jr., Matthew J. Slaughter, NBER Working Paper No. w8433, August 2001

“Foreign Direct Investment Behavior of Multinational Corporations”, Bruce A. Blonigen, NBER Reporter: Research Summary Winter 2006

http://www.nber.org/reporter/winter06/blonigen.html


The Spanish Legion (TheEconomist, Nov. 2008)