120 -- MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS & STRATEGY

 

 

Fall 1998

 

 

Quarter: FALL

Year: 1998

Course #: 120-D49-1

Section: 21

Course Name: Competitive Strategy

Instructor: Daniel F. Spulber

Casepack: YES

First Assignment

 

First reading in Case Packet.

 

1. TEXT -- REQUIRED YES

Author: Daniel F. Spulber

Publisher: New York: McGraw Hill/Business Week Books

Title: The Market Makers: How Leading Firms Create and Win Markets

Date/Edition: 1998

 

 

Quarter: FALL

Year: 1998

Course #: 120-D60-1

Section: 21

Course Name: Foundations of Managerial Economics 1: Static Decision Models

Instructor: Roger Myerson

Casepack: NO

First Assignment

 This is a course on the mathematics of optimization, with applications to economic theory. Rangarajan Sundaram's A First Course in Optimization Theory (available at Great Expectations book store on Foster Street) is recommended as a primary reference for part of the course. We will also use lecture notes from last year (available in class) and Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green Microeconomic Theory (MWG), which is used in Economics D10.

 

List of topics:

  1. Continuity and compactness.
  2. Convex sets: separating hyperplane theorems and extreme-point theorems.
  3. Linear programming.
  4. Applications of duality in economic theory.
  5. Optimization of nonlinear functions.
  6. Fixed-point theorems.
  7. Monotone decision rules in lattices.

 

1. TEXT -- REQUIRED YES

Author: See Above

Publisher: See Above

Title: See Above

Date/Edition: See Above