Industrial Organization

⊕ Instructor
Dr. Ryan Safner
118 Rosenstock
safner@hood.edu
@ryansafner
Office hours: MW 3:15–5:00PM

Course
TuTh
January 15–May 8, 2020
2:00–3:15PM
101 Rosenstock
Slack


This site contains the syllabus, schedule, and assignments for ECON 326: Industrial Organization, held during Spring 2020 at Hood College.

Transition to Online

This course is now online for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. Please read this update for more information on course changes and accessibility.

Last Update: 13:27:35 Fri May 08 2020

By the end of this course, you will:

• Understand key economic models of perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly (Bertrand, Cournot, and Stackelberg competition), and contestable markets
• Apply models of competition to different industries and regulatory regimes
• Simulate strategic and game theoretic interactions and apply them to industry behavior
• Discuss how firms actually compete with one another
• Critique textbook models and theories of regulation and antitrust
• Understand the economic problems that firms solve, create, and grapple with
• Debate regulatory solutions to problems and current events in various industries

Given these objectives, this course fulfills two of the learning outcomes for the George B. Delaplaine, Jr. School of Business Economics B.A. program:

• Apply economic reasoning and models to understand and analyze problems of public policy […]
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communications skills for personal and professional success[…]