2023/2024
BA-BINBO1138U Industrial Organizational Analysis
| English Title |
| Industrial Organizational
Analysis |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory (also offered as elective) |
| 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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disciplines |
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| Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
14-02-2023
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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 explain how competition policy, regulations, and other
market interventions affect market outcomes.
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| Examination |
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Industrial
Organizational Analysis:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Written sit-in exam on CBS'
computers |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
4 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-point grading scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
| Exam period |
Spring and Summer |
| Aids |
Limited aids, see the list below:
The student is allowed to bring - Any calculator
- Language dictionaries in paper format
The student will have access to - Advanced IT application package
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| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
The number of registered candidates for the make-up
examination/re-take examination may warrant that it most
appropriately be held as an oral examination. The programme office
will inform the students if the make-up examination/re-take
examination instead is held as an oral examination including a
second examiner or external
examiner.
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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, and the development of markets over time. 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.
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
14-02-2023
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