Empirical Industrial Organization

Catalog description

This course provides students with a rigorous introduction to the topics and methods of Empirical Industrial Organization (IO). It covers topics related to the empirical analysis of how markets work, how firms compete or collude with each other, and how these interactions determine profits and consumer welfare. This course emphasizes the importance of combining good data, reasonable economic models, and appropriate econometric techniques to answer empirical questions in Industrial Organization and in Economics in general.