2020/2021
BA-BINBO1138U Industrial Organizational Analysis
| English Title |
| Industrial Organizational
Analysis |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Bachelor |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Start time of the course |
Third Quarter, Spring |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in International
Business
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| Course
coordinator |
- Marcus Asplund - Department of Economics
(ECON)
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| Main academic
disciplines |
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| Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
22-01-2021
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| Learning objectives |
After having attended the course the students
should be able
- to explain and analyze theoretical microeconomic models of firm
behavior and market equilibrium.
- to analyze real world market situations using the theoretical
models covered in the course.
- to model a strategic situation facing a firm using game theory
and use this to devise a consistent and coherent strategy.
- to evaluate the efficiency of free market outcomes and explain
how competition policy may change market
outcomes.
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| Examination |
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Industrial
Organizational Analysis:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Home assignment - written product |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Size of written product |
Max. 10 pages |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date
and time. |
| Grading scale |
7-point grading scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
| Exam period |
Spring and Summer |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered
candidates for the make-up examination/re-take examination warrants
that it may most appropriately be held as an oral examination, the
programme office will inform the students that the make-up
examination/re-take examination will be held as an oral examination
instead
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Description of the exam
procedure
4 hous home exam , open
book
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| Course content, structure and pedagogical
approach |
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The students should get an introduction to industrial
organization. They should understand the basic microeconomic models
of industrial organization, such as monopoly theory and oligopoly
theory and their underlying intuitions. They should get acquainted
with some basic concepts of game theory and with theories that
explain collusive behaviour, product differentiation, market entry
and exit, vertical relations and price discrimination. They should
also learn to know empirical regularities around these issues and
empirical approaches which try to identify market structure and the
level of market power in industries.
The theories and empirical approaches will be covered in class and
should be used by the students to analyse the market structure, the
type of competition, the level of market power and the strategies
that firms use to maintain their market power in real world
industries from potentially all parts of the world. In addition the
main features of the anti-trust policies in Europe and in the US
will be discussed. If possible we will have guest speakers
presenting their empirical research with respect to market power
and/or their experience from the inside of an anti-trust authority.
The taught theory will be practically applied when discussing small
cases in class. The course is related to a business and/or an
institutional setting because the small cases are related to
specific firms and the students will be introduced into the
workings of the anti-trust authorities in the US, the EU and
Denmark. The course is also related to international business
and/or economics since the small cases focus on global strategies
of multi-national firms, on global markets and on national markets
in different countries.
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| Description of the teaching methods |
| Classroom teaching consists of a mixture of
lectures and the discussion of exercises and small cases. The
lectures focus mainly on the theory of industrial organization
whereas the exercises and small cases are mainly concerned with the
application of this theory to virtual or actual firms and
industries. |
| Feedback during the teaching period |
Office hours during course period.
Take-home exercises will be discussed in the exercise classes.
Answers to the final exam will be provided in separate session
after grades are distributed.
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| Student workload |
| Lecture hours |
42 hours |
| Class and exam preparation |
183 hours |
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| Expected literature |
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Cabral, Luis M. B. (2002), Introduction to Industrial
Organization, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., and London (The author
is currently in the process of reviewing his book and if the new
edition is out in time we will use it).
Please note, minor changes may occur. The teacher will
upload the final reading list to sitescape/learn two weeks before
the course starts.
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Last updated on
22-01-2021
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