The course is conducted in English。

In the course, we shall examine many interesting issues on industrial organization and international trade. The preliminary reading list (new papers will be added when the course starts) is provided below.

After completing the course, students are expected to be familiar with the literature and modeling skills.

Students are expected to participate in class discussions and make two to three presentations related to the issues.

Two to three hours each week.

Syllabus Common Ownership and Price Discrimination 1. Tsuritani, R. (2025). Strategic input price discrimination with horizontal shareholding. Journal of Economics. 2. Brito, D. Tselokounis, M., and Vasconcelos, H. (2019). Input price discrimination in the presence of downstream vertical differentiation. Economics Letters. Cross-ownership and Vertical Market Structures 1. Sun, J., & Wang, L. F. (2023). Vertical cross‐ownership, input price discrimination, and social welfare. International Journal of Economic Theory 2.Wang, X., Wang, L. F., & Liu, H. (2024). Cross-ownership and managerial delegation under vertical product differentiation. Journal of Economics Green Technology 1. Hirose and Matsumura, (2025) Optimal Energy-Saving Investments and Jevons Paradox in Duopoly Markets (Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/121836/ MPRA Paper No. 121836, posted 06 Sep 2024 16:08 UTC ) 2. John C. Strandholm, Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Felix Munoz-Garcia, (2025) Greener or cheaper goods: Economies of scope in R&D investments, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) Environmental Policies 1. Iida, T. & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Environmental taxes, offshoring, and welfare: The effects of environmental damage and pollution intensity. JEEM. 2. Agliardi, E. & Lambertini, L. (2024). To Abate, or Not to Abate? The arising of the Win-Win solution under time-consistent emission taxation. Environmental and Resource Economics. Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility 1. Cho, S., & Lee, S. H. (2024). Cross ownership and environmental corporate social responsibility with environmental cooperation. Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(1), 446-468. 2. Heywood, J. S., Wang, Z., & Ye, G. (2022). Strategic delegation in an international mixed oligopoly. Managerial and Decision Economics, 43(6), 1888-1898. Economics of Hospitals 1. Li, ZP., Chang, A. (2024) Competition and coordination between traditional and Internet hospitals. Annals of Operations Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-024-06268-y 2. Wang, J.-J., Zhang, X., & Shi, J. J. (2023). Hospital dual-channel adoption decisions with telemedicine referral and misdiagnosis. Omega, 119, 102875. 待補

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