Econ 8601-Industrial Organization

Dept. of Economics

University of Minnesota

Fall 2017

· Lecture 1: 9/5/2017: Dynamic Duopoly

· Lecture 2: 9/7/2017: Dynamic and Stochastic Models of Industry

o Single Agent

o Multi Agent

· Lecture 3: 9/12/2017

o More on Entry Games

· Lecture 4: 9/14/2017

o Arcidiacono, Bayer, Blevins, Ellickson

· Lecture 5: 9/19 Some discussion of variety, CES and Logit

· Lecture 6: 9/21

o Some notes on size distribution

o deloecker_goldberg_khandelwal_pavcnik

· Lecture 7 and 8: 9/26 and 10/3

o Equations from Nocke and Schutz

o Nevo, Turner, and Williams

· Lecture 9, 10/5/17 Theory of the Firm

o Some notes

o Figure and Tables of Caliendo, Monte, and Rossi-Hansberg

· Lecture 10: Two NYC taxi cab papers

· Lecture 11:

o Brancaccio, Kalouptsidi, and Papgeorgiou

o Notes on shares with CES and Frechet

· Lecture 12

o Ahlfedlt, Gabriel, Steven Redding, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf,” The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall, slides