Industrial Organization

ECON 316

This course will introduce you to the study of industrial organization, which is essentially the economic analysis of imperfectly competitive markets and their relationship to the structure of firms. Attention to the regulation of real-world competition distinguishes this course from related courses of microeconomics and game theory. The goal is an understanding of the qualities of actual markets found in advanced capitalist economies, where outcomes and their assumed foundations differ substantially from those of models of perfect competition.