Economics 467
International Industrial Organizations
Fall 2009
Department
of
Economics
University
of
Wisconsin-Madison
Maria
Muniagurria
Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu
7424 Social
Science
Phone:
263-3865
Office Hours:
Tu: 4- 5 pm
Th: 1- 2 pm
Teaching
Assistant:
Camila
Casas
7310
Social Science
Phone:
263-2327
Office Hours: Wed 1.30-3.30 pm
Email:
casas2@wisc.edu
Here is the course Syllabus
How to Order Harvard Business School Cases
F09 Class Outlines/Lectures
Sept 3-8
Sept 10-15
Sep 17
Diagrams Class
example (2 identical firms, homogenous product) by
Camila Casas
Topics/readings weeks
4-5
Sept 22-24
Sept 29
October 1
October 6
October 13-15
October 20-22 (missing
page
in
earlier
version added)
October 27
October 29
November 3-5
EXAMS
Date
ROOM
Exam 1
Topics/readings
Answer Key Thursday
October 8
6210 Social
Science
Exam 2
Tuesday Nov
10
6210 Social Science
Exam 3
Tuesday
Dec 15 (last day of
classes) 6210
Social Science
THEORY Handouts:
Oligopoly
Theory
/Strategic Trade (third market case) (Maria's Handout)
Handout on Monopolistic Competition
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)
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)
Additional readings:
NBER Working Paper 8648
:
Airbus vs. Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft
market
by D. Irwin and N. Pavcnik
Civil
Aircraft
Industry:
European
Commission Site
Updates from the European Commission Site
more
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)
AIDS
Policy
and
Pharmaceutical
Patents: Brazil's Strategy to Safeguard
Public Health.
Cohen, J. & Lybecker, K. (2005) The World Economy 28 (2), 211-230.
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)
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
Dumping and International trade
The Worldwide Spread of Antidumping
Protection by Meredith
Crowley,
Technology
Transfer
Tariffs, Technology Transfer and
Welfare by R. Feenstra
and K. Judd, JPE, Vol. 90, Dec. 1982.
Firms and
International
Trade
World Bank International Study Group on Exports and Productivity (Summary Report 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)