GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS/5130051

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Prof. Dr. A.Hakan CERMİKLİ

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/cermikli/academic

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

cermikli@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Understanding of firm behaviour in real world with different approaches'theoretical and empirical.

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommend optional programme component for this course

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	Introduction to Industrial Economics and Historical Perspective
2. Week	The Welfare Economics of Market Power and Firm Theories
3. Week	Market Power and Dominant Firms: Price Discrimination and Product Quality
4. Week	Oligopoly Pricing: Reaction Curves in classical oligopoly
5. Week	Oligopoly Pricing: Variations on a theme
6. Week	Oligopoly Pricing: Static Games
7. Week	Strategic Behavior: Investment in Entry Deterrence (DIXIT Modeli)
8. Week	Midterm
9. Week	Strategic Behavior: Predatory and Entry Deterrence Firm Behavior
10. Week	Antitrust Economies: Rising Competitor Costs
11. Week	Antitrust Economies: Merger, Takeover, Horizontal Mergers, Vertical Integration
12. Week	Antitrust Economies: Predatory Pricing
13. Week	Regulatory Economics: Natural Monopoly Markets
14. Week	Regulation
15. Week
16. Week

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

J.Church & R. Wave, Industrial Organization: A Strategic Approach S.Martin, Advanced Industrial Economics

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, question-answer

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

none

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	50
Assignment	0	0
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		50

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	15	3	45
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	15	3	45
Searching in Internet and Library	15	2	30
Designing and Applying Materials	15	1	15
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	26	26
Final and Studying for Final	1	27	27
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			188
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.52
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

Gazi University