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Basic Information
- Code: FIOT10
- Location: Helsinki, Economicum building
- Time: September 21 - October 7, 2010
- Application form
- Deadline for applications: September 3, 2010
- Doctoral students not enrolled in FDPE, including students in
foreign universities, are able to attend individual courses. See
How to Apply for the FDPE
courses.
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List of participants
(PDF) (to be added here later)
- The course includes 30 hours of lectures, (exercises and
assignments).
- FDPE recommends that the course is acknowledged by the student's own
university/department with 4 ECTS credit points
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Syllabus (Kultti) (PDF)
- Syllabus (Takalo) (PDF)
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Syllabus (Mustonen)
(PDF)
- Course description: The course is given by three lecturers and
comprises three parts. Mikko Mustonen focuses on network effects,
intermediation, two-sided markets and topics in software markets. Tuomas
Takalo focuses on innovation and intellectual property. The topics covered
are i) patent races and welfare effects of patents; ii) intellectual
property with cumulative innovation; iii) competition policy of innovative
industries and iv) financing of innovative start-ups. Klaus Kultti focuses
on pricing and industry structure in markets with frictions. The prime
example is search markets where consumers have to exert effort to learn
about prices and available products. The course is mainly theoretical.
Teaching Staff
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Teaching Material
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Course requirements
- The course evaluation will be based on a home exam or an assignment and
an exam.
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Assignments
TBA
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Travel Grants
- The Society for economics professors and docents in Finland (Kansantaloustieteen
professorien ja dosenttien yhdistys ry) gives travel grants to doctoral
economics students, please see FDPE website
Financial Aid.
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