TERM: Winter 2007

COURSE #:
MECN 430

SECTION:

 61, 62, 63

COURSE NAME: Microeconomics 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, Chapter 2, Section 2.1.

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

3.      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: 2^nd Edition / 2005

TERM: Winter 2007

COURSE #: MECN430

SECTION: 64, 65

COURSE NAME: Microeconomic Analysis

INSTRUCTOR: Johannes Hörner

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Please read carefully the cases (i) The Aluminum Industry in 1994, (ii) The smelting industry in South Africa,  Alusaf’s Hillside project before the first lecture.

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED

AUTHOR: BESANKO and BRAEUTIGAM

PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons

TITLE: Microeconomics

ED./DATE: 2^ND edition, 2004

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:

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TERM: Winter 2007

COURSE #:
MECN 430

SECTION: 72, 81

COURSE NAME: Microeconomic Analysis

INSTRUCTOR: Brian Rogers

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Please read the following:

1. Besanko, D., and R. Braeutigam, Microeconomics: An Integrated Approach, Chapter 2, Section 2.1

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

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

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Besanko, D., and R. Braeutigam

PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons

TITLE: Microeconomics: An Integrated Approach

ED./DATE: 2^nd Edition / 2005

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:

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COURSE #:  441-0

SECT. 61&62 Winter 2006-07

COURSE NAME: Competitive Strategy and Industrial Structure

INSTRUCTOR: James Dana

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Assignment for Wednesday, January 3^rd

Reminder: Our first class session is Wednesday, January 3rd.  The second class session is Thursday, January 4^th.  This a written assignment due Thursday, January 4^th.  All Week 1 course materials, including the syllabus, the cases, the discussion questions, this first assignment, and the assignment due on January 4^th are available online at our blackboard course web page (courses.northwestern.edu). The syllabus is also available from my web page under “courses”.

Please download and read the following:

1)      The course syllabus. (online only)

2)      Dana, J., “Intel’s Celeron Decision.” (online  and case packet)

3)      Garicano, L., “Game Theory: How to Make it Pay,” Financial Times, October 11, 1999. (online and case packet)

4)      Chevalier, J., “When Can it Be Good to Burn Your Boats,” Financial Times, October 25, 1999. (online and case packet)

Other optional readings are available on the course web page.

Please be prepared to discus the following questions with respect to Intel’s Celeron Decision:

1)      If a firm has a competitive advantage in both the high quality segment and the low quality segment, why wouldn’t it produce in both segments?

2)      What did Intel perceive were the costs of entering the low-end segment?  

3)      What is the difference between Intel’s and AMD’s incentives to produce a low end chip?  How are new product decisions different for a firm that already has an existing substitute product?

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: None

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2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

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TERM: Winter

COURSE #: 
MECN 441

SECTION:  71,  81

COURSE NAME:

INSTRUCTOR:  Nabil Al-Najjar

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Students will be informed via e-mail a week before the start of classes.  No early final exam (including for GIM trip) is offered in this course. Final exams will take place at the dates indicated on the academic calendar only.

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: yes for section 81

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: No

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TERM: Winter 2007

COURSE #:
MECN 450

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME: Macroeconomic Analysis

INSTRUCTOR: Morton Kamien

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Text: Chapter 1

Case packet: Rising above the gathering storm

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR: Andy Abel and Ben Bernanke

PUBLISHER: Pearson Addison Wesley

TITLE: MACROECONOMICS

ED./DATE: 5^th/2005