Dr Pasquale Schiraldi SAL.4.22, Prof Alessandro Gavazza SAL.4.02 and Prof Martin Pesendorfer SAL.4.19

This course is available on the MRes/PhD in Economics and MRes/PhD in Economics and Management. This course is not available as an outside option.

The main goal is to familiarize students with selected theoretical and empirical topics in industrial organization and to put students in a position to do their own research.

Classical IO theory, well established empirical techniques including estimation of demand, production and models of strategic interaction and topics at the forefront of current IO research will be covered.

30 hours of lectures in the AT. 30 hours of lectures in the WT.

This course is delivered through lectures totalling a minimum of 60 hours across Autumn Term and Winter Term.  Attendance is compulsory.

Students will discuss papers in lectures.

Readings will be mainly from journal articles; a list will be supplied at the start of term.

Problem sets (100%) in the AT and WT.

8 take home problem sets (two for each part - four in AT and four in WT). Each problem set will carry equal weight. Problem set questions may include an empirical exercise analysing data, a computation exercise, solving an analytical problem or evaluating a recent unpublished working paper.