Industrial Organization & Public Policy III (Half-Term)

This half-course discusses empirical work on imperfect competition among firms: how to implement empirical methods as well as how to read empirical papers. The course applies tools covered in previous courses from the Industrial Organization sequence to consider issues such as antitrust (particularly merger policy) and price discrimination. We then cover the issues and tools involved with estimating partially identified models, and look at several different topics from an empirical point of view, particularly those centered around vertical markets.