Industrial Organization and Public Policy

Photo of two skyscrapers against a blue sky.

Skyscrapers in Chicago. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)

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MIT Course Number

14.20

As Taught In

Spring 2003

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

This is a course in industrial organization, the study of firms in markets. Industrial organization focuses on firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, which appear to be far more common than the perfectly competitive markets that were the focus of your basic microeconomics course. This field analyzes the acquisition and use of market power by firms, strategic interactions among firms, and the role of government competition policy. We will approach this subject from both theoretical and applied perspectives.

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Nancy Rose. 14.20 Industrial Organization and Public Policy. Spring 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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