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Economics 341 (Section 1)
Industrial Organization
Fall 2007

Syllabus
Problem Sets
Exams
Lecture Outlines
Links
 Discussion Board

Professor Hilary Sigman 
Department of Economics
E-mail: email address
Telephone:  (732) 932-7594
Office: New Jersey Hall 419
Office hours:  By appointment, during winter break.

Announcements:

  1. Course grade shows the grade submitted to the Registrar 
  2. Final score shows your total score on the final exam (out of a possible 200).  The "comments" field shows your multiple choice score (out of a possible 38; 4 points each) and score on the open-ended problems 39 and 40 (out of a possible 48).  The mean on the final was 91 out of 200, with a max of 177.  There is not a separate curve for the final; the overall course scores were calculated using the weights in the syllabus and those were curved to produce your grade.

Lecture outlines:

Note:You will need your NetID and password to access the lecture notes which are stored on Sakai.

Problem sets:
Problem Set 1: Costs and Competition (due Monday, 9/17)
Problem Set 2:  Monopoly and Dominant Firms (due Monday, 10/1)
Problem Set 3: Noncooperative Oligopoly (due Monday, 10/22)
Problem Set 4: Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation (due Wednesday, 10/31)
Problem Set 5: Empirical Analyses and Antitrust (due Monday, 11/12)
Problem Set 6:  Price Discrimination (due Wednesday, 11/28)
Problem Set7: Vertical Restraints and R & D  (due Monday, 12/10)

Suggested extra problems: For those who would like more practice, here are selections from the chapter-end problems that are especially salient.

Note: Problem sets and solutions are in Portable Document Format (pdf).  To read and print them, download the free reader from Adobe. If you are using a campus lab computer, chances are the program is already installed and will launch automatically when you click on the problem set link.
Exams:

Midterm 1: Scores are posted to SAS Gradebook.  You will find 2 listings.  One contains your numerical scores on the exam.  The other contains the list of your multiple choice answers to compare with the solution set.
Midterm 2: Scores are on SAS Gradebook with two listings as above.

 Web resources:

Background materials for Carleton and Perloff text.
Background and examples from class: