Undergraduate Course: Market Structure, Conduct and Performance (BUST10008)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Business Studies |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.bus.ed.ac.uk/programmes/ugpc.html |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | - Strategic Behaviour Concerning Choices of Price and
Output in Oligopolies
- Price and Output Coordination in Practice
- Limit Pricing and Strategic Entry Deterrence
- Determinants of the Structure of Markets: Strategic
Behaviour, Economies of Scale, Chance
- Causes and Effects of Acquisitions and Mergers
- Empirical Studies Relating Market Structure to
Economic Performance
- Strategic Choices Concerning the Amount and Speed of R&D
Activity in Different Market Structures
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | A pass in Business Economics (BUST08005) OR
Economics 2 (ECNM08006) equivalents
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| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Welfare economics of Monopoly and Competition. Determinants of market structure. Oligopolistic coordination. Structure-performance relationships. Market power and technological change. Certain economic aspects of advertising. |
Assessment Information
Continuous assessment - one essay (approx 2000 words) 30%
Final exam 70%.
Visiting Student Variant Assessment:
Two essays (max 3000 words each) (50% each) for visiting students. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Recommended:
J Lipczynski, J Wilson & J Goddard, Industrial Organization, Prentice Hall 2005 (3rd ed.).
Background:
1. S Martin Industrial Organization in Context, Oxford University Press, 2010;
2. S. Martin, Industrial Organization: A European Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2002;
3. D. E. Waldman & E.J. Jensen, Industrial Organization, Addison-Wesley, 1998;
4. J Church & R Ware, Industrial Organization, McGraw-Hill, 2000;
5. S Davies, B Lyons, P Geroski, & H Dixon (eds), Economics of Industrial Organisation, Longman, 1988. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | MSCP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Augusto Voltes-Dorta
Tel: (0131 6)51 5546
Email: Augusto.Voltes-Dorta@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Patricia Ward-Scaltsas
Tel: (0131 6)50 3823
Email: Patricia.Ward-Scaltsas@ed.ac.uk |
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