1. Lecture
Week 1: Introduction to Empirical Industrial Organization
Class 01 (04.09): Introduction Syllabus Slides
Week 2: Introduction to Structural Estimation - Cartel and Collusion
Class 02 (09.09): Porter (1983, RAND) Slides
Class 03 (11.09): Bresnahan (1987, JIE) Slides
Week 3: Differentiated Product Markets
Class 04 (16.09): Berry (1994, RAND) Slides
Class 05 (18.09): Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995, Econometrica)
Week 4: Differentiated Product Markets (continued)
Class 06 (23.09): Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (continued) Slides (Revised on Sept. 23)
Class 07 (25.09): Nevo (2001, Econometrica) Slides
Week 5: Applications for Demand Estimation (Students' Presentation)
Class 08 (30.09): Leslie (2004, RAND) Slides and Gentzkow (2007, AER) Slides
Class 09 (02.10): Gentry (2013, WP) Slides
Week 6: Production Function Estimation
Class 10 (07.10): Olley and Pakes (1996, Econometrica) Slides
Week 7: Static Entry/Exit
Class 11 (14.10): Bresnahan and Reiss (JPE) Slides
Class 12 (16.10): Seim (2006, RAND) and Multiple Equiribria Slides
Week 8: Research Proposal Presentations
Class 13/14 (29.11): Present your research idea in 20 minutes.
2. Exercise (Computational Session)
Class 01 (06.09): Stata and Matlab Tutorial 1 - Slides Data
Class 02 (13.09): Stata and Matlab Tutorial 2 - Slides Data
+ Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm - Paper A Visual Example from Wikipedia
+ Simulated Annealing - Paper A Visual Example from Wikipedia
Class 03 (20.09): Estimating Discrete Choice Models 1 - Slides Data
Class 04 (27.09): Estimating Discrete Choice Models 2 - Slides Data
Class 05 (04.10): Estimating BLP Model 1 - Slides Data
Class 06 (11.10): Estimating BLP Model 2 - Slides Data
Class 07 (09.10): Estimating Production Function Slides Data
3. Homework and Research Proposal
Homework assignment: Due date - November 15th - Problem Set Data
Research proposal: Presentation on Friday November 29th from 10am, at PO44, L7, 3-5. Submission Due is December 31th