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Sep 19, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
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ECO 329 - Industrial Organization3 Credits
Offered Spring
Analysis of industries with varying degrees of monopoly power and influence: monopolies, cartels, oligopolies, monopolistic competition, and dominant firms. Firm strategies and likely outcomes, 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 respond.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles and ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles and one Statistical Reasoning course
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