ECON 8430 - Theory of the Firm and Business Strategy

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ECON 8100.
Description
An application of microeconomic theory and industrial organization to topics for internal firm organization and strategic business decision-making. Topics vary, but typically include transactions cost analysis and empirical implications, multiproduct cost concepts, vertical integration, product differentiation and product quality, durable good pricing, innovation and patents, spatial competition, delivered (base point) pricing, price discrimination, product building, network economies and information implications, and special topics in regulatory economies and transitional adjustments in deregulated industries.