Advanced Industrial Organization

Dear Students,

This course will take place in the Winter Term 2020/2021, however it will be implemented as digital course via the Zoom platform. The following is necessary for this:

• Install the „Zoom Client for Meetings“ from the webpage zoom.us (https://zoom.us/client/latest/ZoomInstaller.exe). Alternatively, you can join the zoom meeting via https://fau.zoom.us/. Simply log in with your IDM-ID and then use the meeting number to join the meeting.
• Test your equipment (microphone, speaker, camera) under Zoom in advance, e.g. with your fellow students. Important: try especially the „mute“ function!
• Register for the course on StudOn  and download the lecture slides (password: AIOMaster)
• To participate in the digital lessons, you will find the Zoom Meeting IDs on StudOn right before the term starts.

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.

Schedule for Winter Term 2020/2021:

The course consists of a lecture (2 SWS) and exercise classes (1 SWS).

The lecture takes place on Monday, 15:00 – 16:30 via Zoom, it starts on Monday, 2 November 2020.

The exercise classes take place on Monday, 9:45 – 11:15 via Zoom.

The exact schedule will be published as soon as possible.

The password for the StudOn-Course is „AIOMaster“. Please register there and bring the material for chapters 1-3 to the first lecture, so you can make additional notes during the lecture.

The written exam is planned for Monday, 8 February 2021.