Teaching

Industrial Organization (Bachelor), Fall 2024

Course information

Lectures:

1. Introduction 

2. Review on Perfect Competition 

3. Review on Game Theory

4. Monopoly

5. Static Oligopoly

6. Dynamic Oligopoly and Collusion

7. Product Differentiation

8. Information

9. Advertising and Marketing

10. Market Structure

11. Network Effects

12. Vertical Relations

Problem Sets:

1. Monopoly, price discrimination and bundling

2. Static and dynamic oligopoly with homogeneous products

3. Product differentiation

4. Market structure

Exam:

The final exam will be closed book.  Here are some exams from previous years: 

Fall 2020: Final, Retake

Fall 2021: Final, Retake

Fall 2022: Final. Retake

Fall 2023: Final, Retake

E701 - Advanced Microeconomics I (Ph.D.), Fall 2024

Information about the course, problem sets, grading, etc.

Lectures:

First part: Decision Theory:

1. Choice, preference and utility

2. Choice under uncertainty

3. Utility for money [Optional: a clean proof of Proposition 8]

4. Prospect theory 

5. Ambiguity aversion 

Second part: Game theory:

1. Static games of complete information: Rationalizability and iterated strict dominance

2. Static games of complete information: Nash equilibrium [Notes on the proof of Proposition 3, put together by a former student]

3. Static games of incomplete information

4. Dynamic games: The extensive form

5. Dynamic games: Equilibrium concepts

Problem sets: 

You can work in groups of at most two. Each group hands in one answer sheet.

1. Problem set #1

2. Problem set #2 [Solutions to optional questions]

3. Problem set #3        

4. Problem set #4        

5. Problem set #5   

6. Problem set #6       

7. Problem set #7       

8. Problem set #8      [Solutions]

Exam:

The final exam will be closed book. Here are some exams from previous years:

Fall 2019: Final, Retake

Fall 2020: Final

Fall 2021: Final

Fall 2022: Final

Fall 2023: Final

E530 Topics in Industrial Organization (Seminar for Master's Students), Spring 2024

Slides for organizational meeting

E5046 Empirical Industrial Organization (Master), Spring 2023

1. Introduction

2. Demand Estimation -- Homogeneous Goods

3. Estimation of Market Power

4. Differentiated Products

5. Production Function and Productivity

Theory and Empirics in Industrial Organization and International Trade (Ph.D.), Summer 2023

Course information

1. Sufficient Statistics

2. Search and Price Dispersion

3. Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Bachelor Theses Supervision

Guidelines for Bachelor Theses