Mar 29, 2024  
2013-2014 HillBook (Class of 2017) 
    
2013-2014 HillBook (Class of 2017) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

ECO 329 - Industrial Organization

Three Credits
Spring Semester (Not Offered 2013-2014)

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.