Course Code & Number:
ECON 414
Course Title:
Industrial Economics
Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits:
(3+0+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 6 ECTS Credits
Catalog Description:
Firms' behaviour in a market economy. Forms of state intervention in modern capitalist economics. The relationship between market structure, market behaviour and market performance.
Pre-requisite / Co-requisite
Pre-requisites:
ECON 212
Co-requisites:
NONE
Learning Outcomes:
Upon succesful completion of this course, a student will be able to
1. Explain basic models of the behavior of firms and industrial organization and how they can be applied to policy issues.
2. Be able to manipulate these models and be able to solve analytically problems relating to industrial economics.
3. Be familiar with the history of competition policy.
4. Analyse and evaluate the main approaches to industrial organization.
5. To explain how price and non-price competition among firms affect economic welfare.
6. Communicate their knowledge and understanding to others verbally during class and in written assigned coursework.
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods:
Telling/Explaining
Discussion/Debate
Questioning
Reading
Collaborating
Case Study/Scenarion Analysis
Guest Speakers
Web Searching
Assessment Methods and Criteria:
Test / Exam
Quiz/Homework
Presentation (Oral/Poster)