Welcome to the ECN 460/560 page. This will be the spot to check out the syllabus, your grades during the quarter, and find internet links related to industrial organization.

An online copy of the Course Syllabus

Competitive Strategy Game

• Click here to see the game instructions.
• Submit Team Strategy for Game here

Empirical Project

• Assignment
• Excel Data for Project B
• Variable Definitions Project B Data (Excel File)

Answer Keys for This Term's Final

• Final - Version A
• Final - Version B

Sample Midterm

• Midterm
• Answer Key

Sample Final Questions

• Final 1.
• Answer Key - Final 1.

• Final 2. Selected questions from past final, so it was longer than what you see here. Also, we did not cover material for question 2.
• Answer Key - Final 2.

Click here for a Review Outline of the Course

Interesting Links

• Click here for an example of OVERT COLLUSION involving Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in a recent case of price-fixing for the lysine market.

• RELEVANT GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION LINKS

  • Federal Trade Commision (FTC)
  • Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
  • Federal Communications Commission
  • U.S. Department of Commerce
  • U.S. Department of Transportation
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Small Business Administration

• OTHER INTERESTING I.O. LINKS
  • Antitrust Site at Vanderbilt with interesting online merger simulation.
  • Prof. Al Roth's (Economist at Harvard) Web Page on Game Theory and Experimental Economics
  • Prof. Jeffrey MacKie-Mason's (Economist at Michigan) Web Page on Telecommunications Industry and Regulation
  • An Interesting Site on Law and Economics

• DATA SOURCES
  • U.S. Business Data from the U.S. Census
  • County Business Patterns from the U.S. Census which provides annual business statistics at the county, state and U.S. level.
  • FedStats which provides access to U.S. databases that are online and free.
  • U.S Corporate Tax Statistics from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
  • Online Data at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes
  • Economagic page: Over 100,000 economic data series available free online

• GENERAL ECONOMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION
  • The Economist
  • The Financial Times
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The New York Times
  • News Link
  • CNN Financial Network
  • Business Week
  • The Washington Post