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CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON MY FALL 2025 TEACHING [The link has detailed
description of 3 undergraduate classes I teach with FAQ by students] Click here for helpful tips for applying to graduate
school in economics Graduate: Empirical Industrial Organization Syllabus for previous years: Spring 2013,
Spring 2015,
Spring 2017,
Spring 2019, Spring 2021,
Spring
2023 Undergraduate: Managerial Economics – Econ 3389 Econ 3389 (Managerial Economics) explores how microeconomic
tools can be used to make effective managerial decisions. The course equips
students with frameworks for analyzing how firms set prices, make production choices, respond to market conditions, and
develop competitive strategies. Topics include demand analysis, production
and cost, market structure, pricing strategies, auctions, regulation, and the
role of information in decision-making. The objective of the course is to prepare students to apply economic
reasoning to managerial problems across a range of industries. While the
course draws on economic theory, the emphasis is on real-world applications
and decision-making. Mathematical and statistical tools will be introduced as
needed but will not be the central focus. A key component of the course is a series of detailed case
studies that examine actual business decisions in context. These include
Netflix’s pricing strategy, Burger King's value menu, Whole Foods'
acquisition of Wild Oats, Google’s antitrust investigations, McDonald’s
market experiments, American Airlines’ pricing behavior, and Spectrum’s
strategic response to cord-cutting. The course also covers broader regulatory
and policy issues such as electricity deregulation and net neutrality. These
case studies are used to reinforce core concepts and show how economic tools
can be applied in practice. Introduction to Economic Research Please click on the
link for more information on this class with detailed class materials Undergraduate students: if you are interested in economic
research, check out this page. There is a lot of useful information on
potential data sources, guides and links to journals publishing only
undergraduate economics research! To expose students to common tools that are essential to
academic research in economics, Introduction to Economic Research offers a
comprehensive series of lectures and workshops. Topics include (1)
introduction to economic journals, finding the relevant literature and how to
effectively summarize them, (2) introduction to various data sources used in
economic research, locating datasets and creating surveys, (3) data
management, including data entry, merging, cleaning datasets, creating graphs
and tables using STATA, (4) introduction to writing in economics, and (5) how
to prepare presentation slides for an academic audience. The class is complemented by a 3 week
individual research assignment linked to ongoing research by faculty and PhD
students at the department, and allows you to gain
hands-on experience with skills acquired during this class. Interested students have the opportunity to
develop their own research proposals and seek faculty advisors for future
semesters to conduct independent research. Applied
Econometrics - Econ 4315 (Also in Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025) Econ 4315 is a
continuation of Econ 3370 (previously Econ 4365) and introduces students to
several extensions of multiple regression methods for analyzing data in
economics and related disciplines. Topics include regression with panel data,
instrumental variables regression, and the analysis of randomized
experiments. The objective of the course is for the student to learn how to
conduct – and how to critique – empirical studies in economics and related
fields. Accordingly, the emphasis of the course is on empirical applications.
The mathematics of econometrics will be introduced only as needed and will
not be a central focus. The class includes
three replication projects where students will study three research papers in
depth and replicate their empirical results with the provided data. These
projects include papers from the field of economic history / economic growth,
online markets / industrial organization, and development economics. Target audience: Students who have taken an introductory course in probability and statistics (Econ 2370) and Introduction to Econometrics (Econ 3370). Students are also expected to know how to run OLS regressions in STATA. Students who would like to apply to graduate school are highly encouraged to enroll, since this class provides an introduction to academic research in economics. Industrial
Organization and Antitrust Policy - Econ 4376.
(Also in Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024) This course will cover the basic tools and issues in the field of industrial organization. While the standard competitive model is an extremely powerful tool, it often fails to characterize much of what is observed in many markets. Industrial organization studies the interaction of firms and consumers in real world markets that fall outside of the standard competitive model. Prominent topics will include oligopoly, cartel behavior, anti-competitive practices, anti-trust and regulation. This course will strongly emphasize real world case studies, but we will develop theoretic models that will help us analyze the behavior we see in the case studies. In addition, the secondary goal of this class is to introduce you to academic research. You will learn how to use library resources, statistical software for data analysis and write effective summaries of case studies. Target audience: Students who have taken an introductory course in econometrics such as Econ 3370 and have taken Intermediate Microeconomics, ECON 3332. These prerequisites will be strictly enforced. You will need to be familiar with economic models of perfect competition and monopoly, and the basic concepts of statistics, such as mean, variance, covariance, correlation, confidence intervals, an run OLS regressions in STATA. This class will not provide any practical advice on starting or running your own business. Intermediate Microeconomics, Econ 3332 (Fall 2014, Spring 2016) Introduction to Econometrics, Econ 4365 (Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013)
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