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2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) 
    
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ECO 329 - Industrial Organization

Three Credits
Spring Semester

Analysis of industries with varying degree of monopoly power and influence: monopolies, cartels, oligopolies, and monopolistic competition. Firm strategies, under both collusive arrangements and competitive pressures. Policy implications like antitrust and regulation. Effects of asymmetrically held information – how parties with information try to use it, those lacking information try to make up for it.

Prerequisite(s): ECO 176  and ECO 178  (or their corresponding First-Year Seminar equivalents), and one Statistical Reasoning course.