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  • 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.
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Week 9 - Product Pricing With Monopoly Power

Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Peak-Load Pricing

Two-Part Tariffs

Monopolistic Competition

Oligopoly and the Cournot Model

The Dominant Firm Model

Cartels and Collusion

OPEC

Game Theory

Prisoner?s Dilemma

Repeated Games

Week 9 Quiz

Week 10 - Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

Asymmetric Information

Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard

Limited Price Information and Advertising

The Size of the Deadweight Loss of Monopoly

Do Monopolies Suppress Innovations?

Natural Monopoly

More on Game Theory: Iterated Dominance and Commitment

The Input Demand Curve of a Competitive Firm

Industry and Market Demand Curves for an Input

Week 10 Quiz

Week 11 - The Market for Inputs

The Supply of Inputs

Industry Determination of the Price and Employment of Inputs

Input Price Determination in a Multi-Industry Market

Input Demand and Employment by an Output Market Monopoly

Monopsony in Input Markets

The Income-Leisure Choice of the Worker

The Supply of Hours of Work

The General Level of Wage Rates and Why Wages Differ

Economic Rent

Monopoly Power in Input Markets: Unions

Week 11 Quiz

Week 12 - Can Government Intervention Improve Market Outcomes?

The Minimum Wage

Who Really Pays for Social Security?

The NCAA Cartel

The Benefits and Costs of Immigration

Three Conditions for Economic Efficiency

Reasons for Government Intervention

Externalities and Public Goods

Externalities

Externalities and Property Rights

Controlling Pollution, Revisited

Week 12 Quiz

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