Industrial Organization (IO), Spring term 2010

  

At this site you can get some information about the intermediate course in IO. (This page may be somewhat uppdated during the course.)

 

General Information

 

News!

Indications to answers for the last ordinary exam is now available (see 2010 below).

 

Old Exams

2010, 2009, 2007, and 2004 (skip question 6, it is somewhat obsolete).

 

Time Table:

The course starts on January 19 (12-14 EC3:210). Time table.

 

Plan of lectures:

Plan of lectures for the third and fourth edition of PRN, respectively.

 

Slides to the lectures:

There are no lecture notes, but slides to the lectures can be downloaded. These slides may be slightly updated during the course. A final version is now available.

 

Main text

PRN - Pepall, L., D. Richards and G. Norman, Industrial Organization: contemporary theory and practice. South-Western College Publishing, 3rd ed., 2005.

Alternatively you can use the 4th edition of the same book with the sligthly changed title “Industrial Organization: contemporary theory and empirical applications” (published 2008 by Blackwell Publishing).

 

Group assignment

The group assignment is a voluntary task, in which you can earn ten percent of the total points (credits) on the course. The purpose is to apply theoretical tools to a real world phenomenon. Two occassions for each group are planned, one where the assignment is introduced and one where the groups presents their work. If you want to participate you have to come to both scheduled occasions for the seminars (denoted as “Övning” in the time schedule). Thus, to earn any points on the group assignment it is obligatory that you are present on these seminars and belong to a group. Credits earned on the group assignment are only valid on the ordinary exam and the first re-examination.

 

 Examination

- Written examination at the end of the course. (For exact dates see time table.) Re-examination about one month later.

- No calculators will be permitted during the examination.

- No examination will be given outside Lund or on other dates than the ones specified for the ordinary exam, the ordinary re-examination and the re-take in August.