Graduate Empirical Industrial Organization
This is meant to be a first PhD course in Empirical Industrial Organization. It is meant for second year PhD students.
Books: In theory this course presumes knowledge in Tirole: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0093C1K3M.
In practice, not so much.
Train (2009). Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H7WPAKY
- A helpful reference but used only in Part 4.
Topics (in order):
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Old things: Cournot, Bertrand, SCP Paradigm, Conjectural Variations
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Homogenous Products / The Simultaneity Problem: From Working (1927) to Angrist, Imbens, Graddy (2000).
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Demand Models: Intro and Representative Agents
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Statistical Models of Differentiated Products (Train 2003).
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IV Models of Differentiated Products (Berry 1994 and BLP 1995).
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Welfare Effects in Differentiated Products Markets.
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Pricing, Mergers and Unilateral Efffects
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Conduct and Collusion
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Dynamic Discrete Choice Models: (Rust 1987) (Hotz and Miller 1993)
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Dynamic Discrete Choice Models: Persisence and Unobserved Heterogeneity
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Dynamic Demand: Durable Goods and Storable Goods
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Dynamic Demand: Learning and Experience Goods
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Network Effects and Switching Costs
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Two Period Entry Models
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Partial Identification and Moment Inequalities