Empirical Methods for Industrial Organization

1 Course Unit

The goal of the course is to explore links between theory and data in order to identify and test implications of economic models. Reduced form and structural approaches will be used to study a variety of topics that include: Estimation of multiproduct cost functions; detection of collusion, multimarket contact, and network externalities; asymmetric information: auctions and nonlinear pricing; price competition and product differentiation; and complementarities: innovation and organizational design. Fall or Spring Prerequisite: ECON 7100 AND ECON 7200 AND ECON 7110 AND ECON 7210 AND ECON 7300 AND ECON 7310 1 Course Unit