ECON 432 A: Empirical Industrial Organization

Competition and market structure, product differentiation, entry and exit, vertical relationships, cartel, mergers, and consumer dynamics. Special emphasis on empirical aspects of economic models in industrial organization; i.e., identification of demand and supply, merger evaluations, detection of cartels, and estimation of entry-exit models. Econometrics and statistical software employed to conduct empirical exercises. Prerequisite: a minimum grade of 2.0 in ECON 300; and either ECON 382, ECON 482, or ECON 483.