Industrial Organizational I

1.5 units

Starting from the 1970s, an increasing number of economic theorists have been becoming interested in Industrial Organization. This is because non-cooperative game theory became the standard tool to analyze strategic conflicts and it lent itself naturally to the analysis of industrial organization topics (while until then the tools of general equilibrium analysis were not ideal to tackle the same issues).The course aims to give you a concise but solid background of the classical results in IO theory,and to then highlight some very recent contributions to the same literature. We will give particular attention to the topics that are complementary to empirical analysis.