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ECON 651 Advanced Industrial Organization

• Readings and exams
  A preliminary reading list for each set of topics is attached. The reading list includes all papers to be discussed in lectures. Course grades will be based two paper assignments and a final exam. They will be weighted at 30%, 30% and 40%, respectively.

• Outline of topics

  1. Firm demography
  * Entry
  * Survival
  * Growth

  2. Market power, competition and welfare
  * Theory
  * Empirics

  3. Industrial Policy
  * Aims (why?)
  * Means (how?)
  * Cases: The EU and Turkey

  4. Competition policy
  * Aims (why?)
  * Means (how?)
  * Cases: The EU and Turkey

  5. Regulation of network industries
  * Aims (why?)
  * Means (how?)
  * Cases: The EU and Turkey

.: 2005 ERC METU | Updated 24 October 2005 :.