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Undergraduate Course: Market Structure, Conduct and Performance (BUST10008)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
Summary- 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


Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Business Economics (BUST08005) OR Economics 2 (ECNM08006)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesA pass in Business Economics (BUST08005) OR
Economics 2 (ECNM08006) equivalents


Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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.
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.
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.bus.ed.ac.uk/programmes/ugpc.html
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsMSCP
Contacts
Course organiserDr Augusto Voltes-Dorta
Tel: (0131 6)51 5546
Email: Augusto.Voltes-Dorta@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Patricia Ward-Scaltsas
Tel: (0131 6)50 3823
Email: Patricia.Ward-Scaltsas@ed.ac.uk
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