Advanced Industrial Organization

ADVANCED IDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION WILL NOT BE OFFERED ANY MORE (from Winter Term 2022/2023 on).

The written exam will only be offered for repeaters.

Content:

The goal of this course is to analyze topics that are important for an understanding of such decision-making and firm behavior. Besides standard concepts such as price competition, product choice and market power, the course takes on topics such as free entry, switching costs, specific forms of price differentiation and bundling, asymmetric information, tying and platform markets. The integration of real-world cases in the course permits to focus on novel issues, such as competition policy in network markets, platform design, as well as pricing under asymmetric information.

The password for the StudOn-Course is „AIOMaster“.