EMPIRICAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION II

Basic Information

• Code: SEIO11
• Location: Helsinki, Economicum building
• Time: June 6-10, 2011
  • Time schedule (PDF)
• Application form
  • Deadline for applications: May 30, 2011
  • 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.
• List of participants
• The course includes 20 hours of lectures and exercises (and an exam).
• FDPE recommends that the course is acknowledged by the student's own university with 3 ECTS credit points.
• Course description: This course aims at familiarizing students with current research in dynamic empirical industrial organization, and preparing them to do their own research in the field.
• Syllabus (PDF)

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Instructor

• Professor Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University)

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Course material

• Abbring, J.H. and T.J. Klein (2011), “Dynamic discrete choice models: Methods, Matlab code, and
  exercises”, Lecture Notes, CentER, Tilburg University.

  Abbring, J.H., and J.R. Campbell (2011), “Matlab programs for Last-In First-Out Oligopoly
  Dynamics”, Computational Appendix to Abbring and Campbell (2010).

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Take-home exam

Deadline for the submission of the take-home exam is July 8, 2011. Papers should be sent electronically to fdpe-hecer[at]helsinki.fi

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Course requirements

Students are expected to (i) actively prepare for and participate in the lectures, (ii) work on Matlab exercises throughout the week, and (iii) hand in a final take-home Matlab assignment.

Completion of Matlab exercises during the course is a prerequisite for passing the course. The final grade is based on the take-home assignment.

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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 Financial Aid.

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