Ph.D. in Economics: Industrial Organization Field

 

Required Courses

ECON 7810 Industrial Organization I.  Three credits.  Prerequisites: students must have passed Ph.D. qualifying exams in microeconomics and macroeconomics. This course serves as the first half of the graduate sequence in industrial organization, in which microeconomic models are used to study topics related to firm strategy and market structure. With an emphasis on preparing students to conduct their own research, the course introduces students to current methods and techniques in a variety of research areas within the field of industrial organization.
 

ECON 7820 Industrial Organization II.  Three credits.  Prerequisites: students must have pass Ph.D. qualifying exams in microeconomics and macroeconomics. This course serves as the second half of the graduate sequence in industrial organization, in which microeconomic models are used to study topics related to firm strategy and market structure. The aim of the course is to improve students’ economic modeling and econometric skills in order to prepare them to conduct independent research. Students will make extensive use of statistical software packages, such as Matlab and Stata.