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14.271 | Fall 2013 | Graduate

# Industrial Organization I

### Course Overview

This page focuses on the course 14.271 Industrial Organization I as it was taught by Professor Glenn Ellison in Fall 2013.

This course provided a graduate level introduction to industrial organization. This course was graded on the basis of seven problem sets, a midterm, and a final exam.

### Course Outcomes

#### Course Goals for Students

- To provide a broad introduction to topics that current researchers are studying
- To expose students to a wide variety of techniques
- To start the process of preparing economics PhD students to conduct thesis research in industrial organization or related fields

### Curriculum Information

#### Prerequisites

14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

#### Requirements Satisfied

- H-Level Graduate Credit
- Can be applied towards a PhD in Economics

#### Offered

Every fall semester

### Student Information

#### Enrollment

25 students

#### Breakdown by Year

The students were 1st and 2nd year PhD students.

#### Breakdown by Major

The majority of the students who took this course were from the Economics department, but there were also some students from the Sloan School of Management.

#### Typical Student Background

The course assumed that students had taken a PhD-level microeconomics course and had a master’s level knowledge of game theory and econometrics.

### How Student Time Was Spent

During an average week, students were expected to spend 12 hours on the course, roughly divided as follows:

#### Lecture

- Met 2 times per week for 1.5 hours per session; 26 sessions total; mandatory attendance

#### Recitation

- Met once per week for 1.5 hours per session; 10 sessions total
- Led by the course’s teaching assistant
- Included review of course material and discussion of problem set solutions

#### Out of Class

- Seven problem sets
- Readings in preparation for class sessions
- Optional office hours with teaching assistant each Tuesday

## Course Info

##### Instructor

- Prof. Glenn Ellison

##### Departments

- Economics

##### As Taught In

Fall 2013

##### Level

Graduate

##### Topics

- Social Science
  - Economics
    - Industrial Organization

##### Learning Resource Types

assignment Problem Sets
grading Exams
co_present Instructor Insights

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