Economics 467

International Industrial Organizations
Fall 2009
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison


                                                                                                        Exam 2 Review Session
                                                                                                            Sat. Nov. 7
                                                                                                                2-3 pm
                                                                                                          6102 Soc. Science
 

 

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 


Problem Sets :

Homework 1 (due Tu Sep. 22 in lecture) Answer key
Homework 2 (Question I and II due Th October 1 in lecture, Question III due Tu October 6 in lecture) Answer Key
Questions on HBS case Boeing-Airbus (due in class on Tu October 6)
Homework 3 (due Th October 22 in lecture) Answer Key

Sample Exams:

S09 Exam 1
S09 Exam 2
S09 Exam 3


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)



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)

           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, 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

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)