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Empirical Methods in Industrial Organization

Offered in 112-2
  • Serial Number

    56250

  • Course Number

    ECON7201

  • Course Identifier

    323 M6330

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  • 2 Credits
  • Elective

    DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS / GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS

      Elective
    • DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

    • GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS

  • CHING-I HUANG
  • Fri 2, 3
  • 社科研604

  • Type 1

  • 25 Student Quota

    NTU 21 + non-NTU 4

  • No Specialization Program

  • Chinese
  • NTU COOL
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  • Course Description
    Traditionally, Industrial Organization discusses the interactions of oligopolistic firms. For example, from the view of antitrust, the regulator wants to know whether a proposed merger should be allowed. One crucial factor to influence the interactions is consumers’ demand across the products. An important theme in empirical industrial organization is to estimate demand, particularly in differentiated-product industries. We will spend most of the time on consumer’s discrete choice of products in a differentiated market. We will introduce the BLP’s (Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes) framework to empirically analyze this discrete choice problem. We then apply this framework to study various issues, such as price discrimination, competition of durable products, environmental policies. We will also teach programming to apply these empirical methods.
  • Course Objective
    Te goal of this course is to familiarize students with empirical analysis in industrial organization. Specifically, we will talk about the development of New Empirical Industrial Organization in the past two decades.
  • Course Requirement
    Please see the syllabus at: https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~chingihuang/teaching/IO2024/index.htm
  • Expected weekly study hours before and/or after class
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  • Designated Reading
    https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~chingihuang/teaching/IO2024/index.htm
  • References
    https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~chingihuang/teaching/IO2024/index.htm
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