Empirical Analysis in Food Marketing

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This is the first course in the Ph.D. field sequence in Industrial Organization, including applications to food marketing. Industrial Organization is the applied study of firms and markets. IO typically focuses on differences across firms and markets, implying the need for a rich set of models. The course presents a series of models of increasing realism and complexity. At each stage, we review the relevant theory as a starting point and then do a detailed study of the empirical application of that theory to real world data with a discussion of the implications for economic policy in areas such as anti-trust, and environmental and food policy analysis.