Undergraduate Course: Market Structure, Conduct and Performance (BUST10008)
Course Outline
| School | Business School | 
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | - Strategic Behaviour Concerning Choices of Price and 
    Output in Oligopolies  
- Price and Output Coordination in Practice  
- Limit Pricing and Strategic Entry Deterrence  
- Determinants of the Structure of Markets: Strategic  
    Behaviour, Economies of Scale, Chance  
- Causes and Effects of Acquisitions and Mergers  
- Empirical Studies Relating Market Structure to  
    Economic Performance  
- Strategic Choices Concerning the Amount and Speed of R&D 
    Activity in Different Market Structures  
 
 
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| Course description | 
    
    Not entered
    
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Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | A pass in Business Economics (BUST08005) OR 
Economics 2 (ECNM08006) equivalents 
 
 
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Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
|     Welfare economics of Monopoly and Competition. Determinants of market structure. Oligopolistic coordination. Structure-performance relationships. Market power and technological change. Certain economic aspects of advertising.
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Reading List 
Recommended: 
J Lipczynski, J Wilson & J Goddard, Industrial Organization, Prentice Hall 2005 (3rd ed.). 
Background: 
1. S Martin Industrial Organization in Context, Oxford University Press, 2010; 
2. S. Martin, Industrial Organization: A European Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2002; 
3. D. E. Waldman & E.J. Jensen, Industrial Organization, Addison-Wesley, 1998; 
4. J Church & R Ware, Industrial Organization, McGraw-Hill, 2000; 
5. S Davies, B Lyons, P Geroski, & H Dixon (eds), Economics of Industrial Organisation, Longman, 1988. |   
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Augusto Voltes-Dorta 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5546 
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Course secretary | Ms Patricia Ward-Scaltsas 
Tel: (0131 6)50 3823 
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