The final module of the Power of Markets course begins by further exploring firm behavior in imperfectly competitive market settings: how firms with monopoly power can increase profits through price discrimination; and the price-output combinations we can expect firms to select in cases of monopolistic competition and oligopoly. We will also analyze monopolies from an efficiency perspective and look at the effects of imperfect information on firm and consumer behavior. We will next turn to exploring input markets and what determines the demand for an input by a firm, an industry, and the overall market. We will also look at the factors that affect input supply and how the supply of an input interacts with demand to determinant input prices. We will use input market theory to analyze institutions and government policies such as the NCAA sports cartel, the minimum wage, Social Security, and immigration. Finally, we will address the concept of market efficiency and what government can do to promote it as well as how government intervention may diminish it.
Price Discrimination. Firm Behavior in Cases of Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
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10 videos•Total 112 minutes
Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Peak-Load Pricing•14 minutes
Two-Part Tariffs •14 minutes
Monopolistic Competition•7 minutes
Oligopoly and the Cournot Model•12 minutes
The Dominant Firm Model•10 minutes
Cartels and Collusion•12 minutes
OPEC •10 minutes
Game Theory•11 minutes
Prisoner’s Dilemma•12 minutes
Repeated Games •9 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 9 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 10 - Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
Module 2•2 hours to complete
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Imperfect Information. The Efficiency Effects of Monopoly. Firm, Industry, and Market Demand for an Input.
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9 videos•Total 79 minutes
Asymmetric Information•11 minutes
Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard •10 minutes
Limited Price Information and Advertising•6 minutes
The Size of the Deadweight Loss of Monopoly•9 minutes
Do Monopolies Suppress Innovations?•7 minutes
Natural Monopoly•8 minutes
More on Game Theory: Iterated Dominance and Commitment•10 minutes
The Input Demand Curve of a Competitive Firm•10 minutes
Industry and Market Demand Curves for an Input •8 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 10 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 11 - The Market for Inputs
Module 3•2 hours to complete
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The Supply of Inputs and the Determination of Input Prices.
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10 videos•Total 70 minutes
The Supply of Inputs•6 minutes
Industry Determination of the Price and Employment of Inputs•6 minutes
Input Price Determination in a Multi-Industry Market•6 minutes
Input Demand and Employment by an Output Market Monopoly•5 minutes
Monopsony in Input Markets •6 minutes
The Income-Leisure Choice of the Worker •6 minutes
The Supply of Hours of Work •12 minutes
The General Level of Wage Rates and Why Wages Differ •10 minutes
Economic Rent •4 minutes
Monopoly Power in Input Markets: Unions•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 11 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 12 - Can Government Intervention Improve Market Outcomes?
Module 4•2 hours to complete
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Using Input Market Theory to Analyze the Minimum Wage, Social Security,Immigration, and the NCAA. Promoting Market Efficiency and Why Government Intervention in Markets May be Justified.
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10 videos1 assignment
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10 videos•Total 95 minutes
The Minimum Wage•14 minutes
Who Really Pays for Social Security? •8 minutes
The NCAA Cartel•12 minutes
The Benefits and Costs of Immigration •8 minutes
Three Conditions for Economic Efficiency•7 minutes
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