Course Information
Course title
Introduction to Industrial Organization 
Semester
110-1 
Designated for
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES  GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS  
Instructor
JIANDA ZHU 
Curriculum Number
ECON5127 
Curriculum Identity Number
323EU2260 
Class
 
Credits
3.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Elective 
Time
Wednesday 6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
Remarks
Restriction: juniors and beyond OR Restriction: MA students and beyond OR Restriction: Ph. D students
The upper limit of the number of students: 30. 
Ceiba Web Server
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1101ECON5127_ 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

This course provides the introduction to Industrial Organization (IO), including the study of market structures, firm theory, and some important topics in IO. The focus will be on some basic theoretical models and related empirical studies.  

Course Objective
The goal is to familiarize students with the methods and topics in IO, which can be applied to the research in the future. 
Course Requirement
Prerequisites: Microeconomics (1) and (2) (ECON 2018, 2019), Statistics (ECON2022), and Introductory Econometrics (ECON2023) are required. You need to know the basic knowledge of game theory and understand how to run ordinary least squares in some software.

The online course will be held on the following link:
https://ntucc.webex.com/meet/jdzhu

Syllabus:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zQ5pHf5_UqxCScyujvn9wuweE_YQuXQw/view?usp=sharing

Course Information:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SvUrRXTUywPzU2uaArTodxYBjTNc8SY_/view?usp=sharing 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
Wed. 10:00~11:00 
Designated reading
 
References
1. Dennis W. Carlton and Jeffrey M. Perloff. Modern Industrial Organization, Pearson/Addison Wesley, 2005.
2. Jean Tirole. The Theory of Industrial Organization, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. 
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