Industrial Organization and Public Policy
Economics 275
Professor Stull
Spring 2008
Industrial Organization studies the impact of market structure on strategy, conduct,
and economic performance. Monopolists, oligopolists, and competitors
behave differently on pricing, entry, innovation, marketing, product
differentiation, and other decisions. These differences have important
implications for economic efficiency and public policy. Antitrust law,
economic regulation and deregulation, public ownership and privatization have
all been responses to industrial organization problems.
This course will use a series of industry studies to develop the theoretical
framework of industrial organization, to examine economic problems related to
each market structure, and to analyze public policy.
This course will have three exams and a Research Paper. See
this page for Industry
Studies done in 2004
Topic sheets from last time are available. These will be updated before
each exam.
Topics for Exam One
Topics for Exam Two
Topics for Final Exam
Links
Supreme Court
Antitrust Debates
North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS) A list of SIC codes , or search
OSHA SIC code site
US Census Bureau
Annual
Survey of Manufactures
2002 Economic
Census 1997
Economic Census
Industry Concentration: CR4 and Herfindahl
explained , Table of
concentration ratios (pdf) [big and slow to download]
Industries
Agriculture
US Department
of Agriculture
Oil
Whatever Happened to Standard Oil?
OPEC
American Petroleum Institute
Oil Online
Oil.com
Steel
American Iron
and Steel Institute
Computers
IBM Antitrust
Suit Records
United
States v. Microsoft Dep't of Justice
Microsoft
Antitrust Case Documents National Association of Attorneys General
States'
enforcement of Microsoft antitrust judgement
Automobiles
Alliance of
Automobile Manufacturers
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmacy
Industry Profile Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
(PhRMA)
TRIPS and
public health WTO
Telecommunications
Federal Communication
Commission
Bell Phone
History
Airlines
American
Airlines Predation case
Beer
Modern Brewery Age
Taking
the Long View (
Craft Beer
industry statistics
Other links
US Dep't of Energy's Industries of the Future
(agriculture, oil, steel, and others)
Industrial
Organization links from the Rand Journal of Economics
Useful links for
IO students, teachers and researchers from Luis Cabral
Department of Economics homepage
Questions, problems, or comments?
email: cstull@kzoo.edu
updated January 2, 2004