TERM: Winter 2004/2005

COURSE #:  Mec 441

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME: Industrial Structure and Competitive Strategy

INSTRUCTOR:  Mark Satterthwaite

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Reading: Scott-Morton (1999), Why economics has been fruitful for strategy.  Shapiro and Varian  (1999), Networks and positive feedback.  Suggested Review:  “theory of perfect competition” in a microeconomics textbook.   Cases:  “Nintendo Co., Inc” and “The Oil Tanker Industry in 1973.”  Discussion questions for both cases are in the packet and on the course’s Blackboard site.  Please come to class prepared to participate.  Exercise due:  perfect competition in the market for supertankers. 

By mid-September all materials for week one (excepting the Shapiro and Varian reading) will be on my “course page”  at: 

          http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/satterthwaite/htm/coursepg.htm

Before coming to class please check this page or the Blackboard site for any current clippings that I may have posted.

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: No

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TERM: Fall 2004/2005

COURSE #: MECN 430

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME: Microeconomic Analysis

INSTRUCTOR:  Alp Atakan

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Please read the following:

1.        Besanko, D., and R. Braeutigam, Intermediate Microeconomics:  An Integrated Approach (Hereafter B&B), Chapter 2, Section 2.1.

2.        B&B, Mathematical Appendix, Sections A1-A5.

3.        Al-Najjar, N. and D. Besanko, “Note on the Microeconomics of Cost.”

4.        The Aluminum Industry in 1994 (HBS 9-799-129)

5.        Aluminum Smelting in South Africa:  Alusaf’s Hillside Project (HBS 9-799-130)

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?:  Yes

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Besanko, D. and R. Braeutigam

PUBLISHER:  John Wiley & Sons

TITLE:  Microeconomics:  An Integrated Approach

ED./DATE:  2001

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