This is part of the Industrial Economics site led by David Paton of Nottingham University as part of the TRUE project.

Lecture notes in Industrial Economics

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Text and notes

Michael Pollitt, MIT

From a course delivered in 2003, PDF-format exams and problem sets, mostly including solutions. There are also around two dozen lecture handouts. The materials are online as part of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative. Creative Commons licensed.

Confederation of British Industry

This is a collection of presentations given at various CBI (Confederation of British Industry) events made available via SlideShare. They have been authored by members of the CBI or invited speakers from HM Treasury, companies and other organisations. They cover topics such as public procurement, climate change, energy policy, pensions etc. In common with other resources available on SlideShare they are embeddable in other websites, some are downloadable and registered users can comment on the presentations.

Kevin Hinde, University of Northumbria

The economics of competition: a global perspective, is part of Kevin Hinde's suite of economics resources. The lecture slide shows are from a course for Business Studies students which "explores the effects of competitive and anti-competitive behaviour in Europe". Lecture topics are: Introduction to Competition and Regulation, Case Study on Regulation: Protecting Consumers, Understanding Markets and Industries, The Welfare Effects of Market Structure, Oligopoly, Barriers to Entry, Cartels, Predatory Behaviour, and Privatisation and Regulation of Public Utilities. They are available in PDF and also as PowerPoint files.

Kevin Hinde, University of Northumbria

Interactive textbook for industrial economics by Kevin Hinde, contains slide shows and complete lecture notes from a course on Managerial and Industrial Economics. Chapters include "The Economics of Regulating the Market", "Collusive and Competitive Behaviour", "Dominant Firms and some implications for economic welfare ", "Traditional Oligopoly Models and Economic Welfare" and "Privatisation and Regulation in the UK".

Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Network Economics is an introductory text by Anna Nagurney of the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts. It includes notes and reading list on economics of networks, mostly as text and basic diagrams. Includes cost and distance optimisation problems, congestion (including Braess's Paradox) and applications of networks to economics.

Jeffrey Church, University of Calgary, Roger Ware, Queen's University, Ontario

Industrial organization: a strategic approach is an online version of a text book written by Canadian economists Jeffrey Church and Roger Ware, in 2000. This intermediate level text on industrial economics covers, monopolies, oligopoly pricing, strategic behaviour, issues in antitrust economics and issues in regulatory economics. It is available as a single PDF download of over 1000 pages.

Nicholas Economides, New York University

Nicholas Economides' network economics home page, with links to his main papers on the subject including (most useful for teaching) his 'Economics of Networks' review article, interactive bibliography, and links to US anti-trust materials centred on the Department of Justice vs Microsoft case.

Xeni Dassiou, City University

Lecture notes on theory of the firm, growth of firms and industry concentration, barriers to entry, product differentiation, welfare effects of monopoly and other industrial topics. Some handwritten; most contain graphical presentation as well as algebra, some accompanied by slides. Linked to 10-week Industrial Economics course at City University, as taught in 2005.

Johan Lagerlof, Royal Holloway, University of London

Industrial Economics is a course webpage produced by Johan Lagerhof of Royal Holloway, University of London. It includes lecture notes, seminar questions and answers on industrial economic and organisation. Includes theories of monopoly, duopoly and oligopoly; competition policy (UK and US); entry deterrence; product differentiation; mergers. Linked to Industrial Economics lectures with core texts: J Church and R Ware 'Industrial Organization' (McGraw-Hill 2000) and M Motta 'Competition Policy' (Cambridge University Press 2004).

Ken Simons, Royal Holloway College

Industrial growth and competition: course notes and slides, includes 10 sets of bullet-point lecture notes, archived in PDF on this home page for a course run in 2001 and 2003. The course covers innovation, technology, competition, price differentiation, firm size and grwoth. There is also a lengthy course notes document including text, readings and a course description, running to more than 150 pages in PDF. The page also has links to online information sources useful for student projects.

John Scouller, Strathclyde University

Scroll down this page for some PDF and Word files on specific topics in theory of the firm. There are also six PowerPoint presentations from four lectures. Material covered includes: The nature of firms, Costs, Mergers and Acquisitions, Policies, Scale and scope costs, Ansoff’s classification of firm strategies, The Marris model of firm growth, The relationship between costs and firm strategy, Market Power, Oligopoly and evidence on market power, Mergers and acquisitions, and Transaction costs.

Glenn A Woroch, University of California, Berkeley

This economics lecturer provides reading material and handouts in formats such as jpg, PDF, and Excel. Also available are instructions for writing a long writing assignment. Class materials are archived from 1995 to 2001, and include problem sets and sample exams in various formats. This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site, which has most but not all of the content.

Lecture slides

Confederation of British Industry

This is a collection of presentations given at various CBI (Confederation of British Industry) events made available via SlideShare. They have been authored by members of the CBI or invited speakers from HM Treasury, companies and other organisations. They cover topics such as public procurement, climate change, energy policy, pensions etc. In common with other resources available on SlideShare they are embeddable in other websites, some are downloadable and registered users can comment on the presentations.

Kevin Hinde, University of Northumbria

The economics of competition: a global perspective, is part of Kevin Hinde's suite of economics resources. The lecture slide shows are from a course for Business Studies students which "explores the effects of competitive and anti-competitive behaviour in Europe". Lecture topics are: Introduction to Competition and Regulation, Case Study on Regulation: Protecting Consumers, Understanding Markets and Industries, The Welfare Effects of Market Structure, Oligopoly, Barriers to Entry, Cartels, Predatory Behaviour, and Privatisation and Regulation of Public Utilities. They are available in PDF and also as PowerPoint files.

Xeni Dassiou, City University

Lecture notes on theory of the firm, growth of firms and industry concentration, barriers to entry, product differentiation, welfare effects of monopoly and other industrial topics. Some handwritten; most contain graphical presentation as well as algebra, some accompanied by slides. Linked to 10-week Industrial Economics course at City University, as taught in 2005.

Ken Simons, Royal Holloway College

Industrial growth and competition: course notes and slides, includes 10 sets of bullet-point lecture notes, archived in PDF on this home page for a course run in 2001 and 2003. The course covers innovation, technology, competition, price differentiation, firm size and grwoth. There is also a lengthy course notes document including text, readings and a course description, running to more than 150 pages in PDF. The page also has links to online information sources useful for student projects.

John Scouller, Strathclyde University

Scroll down this page for some PDF and Word files on specific topics in theory of the firm. There are also six PowerPoint presentations from four lectures. Material covered includes: The nature of firms, Costs, Mergers and Acquisitions, Policies, Scale and scope costs, Ansoff’s classification of firm strategies, The Marris model of firm growth, The relationship between costs and firm strategy, Market Power, Oligopoly and evidence on market power, Mergers and acquisitions, and Transaction costs.

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