ECON424

School of Business

ECON

424

Combing microeconomic theory, game theory, and empirical results to explore the relationships among firms within and across industries and to examine the nature of strategic interaction among firms. The focus is on the structure and performance of markets that are imperfectly competitive, including entry deterrence strategies and barriers to entry, vertical control, market segmentation and price discrimination, mergers and acquisition, price and non-competition, and market equilibria with incomplete information. Prerequisites: ECON 102 with a C- or better and (MATH 130 with a C- or better or MATH 133 with a C- or better or MATH 150 with a C- or better or MATH 151 with a C- or better).