Lecture and Readings

1. American Tobacco and Introduction to Market Power and Public Policy (1_american_tobacco_firms)
   • Reading on the origins of american tobacco company.
   • Supreme Court Decision Breaking Up American Tobacco ()
   • Reading from Chandler (chandler_managerial_capitalism)
2. Perfect Competition  (2 Perfect Comp)
3. Monopoly (readings from Tirole tirole_monopoly)
   1. Homogenous Good (Monopoly_1)
   2. Price Discrimination (monopoly_2)
   3. Durable Goods (monopoly_3_durable_goods)
4. Oligopoly
   • Bertand and Cournot (oligopoly)
   • Workouts (workouts_cournot_stackelberg_bertrand) and Key (workouts_cournot_stackelberg_bertrand_key)
   • Differentiated Product Markets and the Hotelling Beach (differentiated_products)
5. Merger Policy
   • Merger Policy Notes (merger_policy)
   • Whinston Chapter 1 on Merger Policy (whinston_intro)
   • Williamson (1968) on “Economies as an Antitrust Defense” (williamson_1968)
   • White Chapter 1 (outline_merger_policy_white)
   • Evidence on Horizontal Mergers (evidence_horizontal_mergers)
   • Efficiencies Brewed (ashenfelter_et_al-2015-the_rand_journal_of_economics)
   • Hospital Mergers (2_dafny_identification-and-estimation-of-merger-effects_2009)
6. Vertical Markets
   • Vertical Monopoly (6_vertical_mergers)
   • Exclusion (7_exclusive_dealing)
   • Evidence on Vertical Mergers (evidence_vertical_mergers)
     • Hortacsu and Syverson “Cementing Relations” (cement_relationships)
     • Chipty on Cable TV (chipty-2001-aer-vertical-integration-market-foreclosure)
   • Workouts on Vertical Markets (workout_vertical_market)
7. Bargaining
   • Lecture on Bargaining and Vertical Markets (vertical_markets_bargaining)
     • Notes on Rubinstein (1982) Bargaining Model (lecture-6-bargaining)
   • Workouts on Bargaining in Vertical Markets (vertical_market_workout)
   • Evanston-Northwestern Remedy (080428commopiniononremedy)
   • Evanston Northwestern — Highland Park Merger (evanston_northwestern_ar)
8. Collusion and Dynamic Oligopoly
   • Cartels (cartel_first_lecture).
   • Cartels with Hidden Demand (cartel_hidden_demand).
   • Porter on Detecting Cartels (decting_cartels_porter)
9. Predation
   • Predation and Limit Pricing (predation_lecture)
   • American Airlines Predation Case (aa_case).
   • Predation and Rate of Return in the Sugar Industry (predation_sugar_industry)
   • Golsbee and Syverson (the-quarterly-journal-of-economics-2008-goolsbee-1611-33)
10. Review:
    • Review Paper (20160414_cea_competition_issue_brief)