FE461 Industrial
Organization
Readings
Extra Readings
Part I:
Foundations (Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4)
(1)
Chapter
4: Technology and Cost, HANDOUT, and Wal-Mart
making first use of smart label technology by Chuck Bartles
USA Today, (April 30, 2004)
Writing
Assignment #1 due Jan 25th
Part II: Monopoly
Power in Theory and Practice (Chapter 5, 6, 7, and 8)
(2)
Chapter
5: Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Linear Pricing: and Taken to the
Cleaners? By
Writing Assignment #2 due Jan. 29th
(3)
Chapter
8: Commodity Bundling and Tie-in Sales and Six
Ways Retailers Will Trick You to Spend More This Holiday 12/16/2009 by Krystina Gustafson
Writing
Assignment #3 due Feb. 24th
Part III:
Oligopoly and Strategic Interaction
(4)
Chapter
9: Static Games and Cournot Competition and Ad
Ban Might Help Cigarette Makers, 1/2/1989 in the NYTimes
by Peter Passell
Writing
Assignment #4 due Feb. 28th
(5)
Chapter
10: Price Competition and Price
War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-mart, 11/24/2009
Writing
Assignment #5 due March 3rd
(6)
Video
“Big Bucks,
Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs”, freedocumentaries.org
Writing
Assignment #6 due March 12th (no need to type, just answer during
class)
Part IV:
Anticompetitive Strategies
(7)
Chapter
14: Price Fixing and Repeated Games and On
the Use of Low-Price Guarantees to Discourage Price Cutting, by Maria Arbatskaya, Morten Hviid, and Greg Shaffer in the International Journal of
Industrial Organization 24 (2006) 1139-1156.
Writing
Assignment #7 due April 5th
Part V:
Contractual Relations Between Firms
(8)
Chapter
16: Horizontal Mergers and Justice
Agency Resists Music Merger, 10/17-18/2009 in the Wall Street Journal by
Ethan Smith and Jeffery McCracken
Writing
Assignment #8 due April 9th
(9)
Chapter
18: Price Fixing and Repeated Games, HANDOUT, and Toys ‘R’ Us
Faces Federal Antitrust Inquiry, 10/17-18/2009 in the Wall Street Journal
by Joseph Pereira
Writing
Assignment #9 due April 16th
(10) Chapter 19: Nonprice Vertical Restraints and Is
the iPhone hurting AT&T’s brand? by
Marguerite Reardon, Cnet news, Oct. 2, 2009
Writing
Assignment #10 due April 23rd
