2017 - S2 Term - Industrial Organization II

(The course title in GraSPP is slightly different - Empirical Industrial Organization)

Announcements

1. On July 13th, 18th and 20th, we will have the meeting at Conference Room 2

(共同研究室) on the 12th floor of Econ Building. Please do not go to the Trading

lab, and come to the conference room!!

1. Course Information

• Class Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:25-12:10 at Trading Lab
• Office hour: Tuesday 13:15-14:15, Room 1212 or by appointment
• Syllabus (Reading List will be updated, hopefully, soon)

2. Lecture Schedule

Part I - Methodologies in Industrial Organization

• Production Function Estimation Class 01 (06.06) - Class 03 (06.13)
  • Lecture: [Slides] [Handout Version]
  • Computational Exercise: [Slides], [Data] and [Sample Code]
    • Those who are not familiar with using Stata, please study Stata using [Slides] and [Data])
  • Links to some important papers
    • Olley and Pakes (1996, Econometrica)
    • Levinsohn and Petrin (2003, Review of Economic Studies)
    • Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2015, Econometrica)
• Estimating Static Games Class 04 (06.15) - Class 07(06.27)
  • Lecture: [Slides] [Handout Version]
  • Computational Exercise: [Slides], [Data], [Sample Code], and [Data Generating Code]
  • Links to some important papers
    • Bresnahan and Reiss (1991, Journal of Political Economy)
    • Bresnahan and Reiss (1991, Journal of Econometrics)
    • Berry (1992, Econometrica)
    • Seim (2006, RAND Journal of Economics)
• Estimating Dynamic Models Class 08 (06.29) - Class 10 (07.06)
  • Lecture: Single Agent [Slides] and Game [Slides]
  • Supplemental Material: [Slides]
  • Links to some important papers
    • Rust (1987, Econometrica)
    • Hotz and Miller (1993, Review of Economic Studies)
    • Hotz, Miller, Sanders and Smith (1994, Review of Economic Studies)
    • Aguirregabiria and Mira (2002, Econometrica)
    • Aguirregabiria and Mira (2007, Econometrica)
    • Bajari, Benkard, Levin (2007, Econometrica)
    • Pesendorfer and Schmidt-Dengler (2008, Review of Economic Studies)

Part II - Topics in Industrial Organization

Please take a look at the following guideline to prepare your presentation [Slides].

• Class 11 (07.11) - Price Discrimination and Excess Entry
  • McManus (2007) - Mr. Fujita
  • Berry and Waldfogel (1999) - Ms. Lee
• Class 12 (07.13) - Vertical Relationship
  • Villas-Boas (2007) - Mr. Hayashida
  • Ho and Pakes (2014) - Mr. Nakagami
• Class 13 (07.18) - Dynamic Games
  • Dynamics - Ryan (2012) - Mr. Pan
  • Doraszelski and Jaumandreu (2013) - Mr. Matsuo
• Class 14 (07.20) - More on Dynamics
  • Gowrisankaran and Rysman (2012) - Mr. Asami
  • Igami and Sugaya (WP) - Mr. Higashi

3. Useful Links

• Production Function Estimation
• + Census of Manufactures (工業統計調査) - Questionnaire (in Japanese)