Industrial Economics

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Course Introduction

Course number: 09010650 Credit: 2

The teaching content of this course is as follows:

Week Content
1-2: Introduction to Industrial Economics & Industrial Policy
  • Industry and industrial economics
  • Industrial policy
  • Relationship between industrial policy and market mechanism
3-5: Industrial Structure Analysis
  • Industrial classification and industrial structure
  • Basic methods of industrial structure analysis
  • Overall trends of industrial structure changes
  • Theoretical explanations for the drivers of industrial structure changes
  • Economic growth effects of industrial structure changes
  • Selection and cultivation of leading industries
6-8: Industrial Linkage Analysis & Industrial Structure Policy
  • Basic principles of input-output method
  • Input-output models
  • Analysis of industrial linkage effects
  • Analysis of industrial ripple effects
  • Dynamic analysis of industrial linkages
  • Industrial structure policy
9: Industrial Organization Analysis & Market Structure
  • Methods of industrial organization analysis
  • Market structure analysis
  • Application of enterprise competitive strategy in market structure analysis
10: Competition and Cooperation in Oligopolistic Markets
  • Non-cooperative oligopolistic markets
  • Cooperative oligopolistic markets
11: Strategic Pricing Behavior of Enterprises
  • Entry-deterring pricing
  • Predatory pricing
  • Price discrimination
  • Price wars
12: Non-Price Competition: Advertising
  • Advertising and its mechanism of influence on consumers
  • Advertising budget
  • Market effects of advertising
13-14: Non-Price Competition: Technological Progress
  • Connotation and forms of technological progress
  • Stimuli and obstacles to inventions in market economy
  • Relationship between market structure and invention/innovation
  • Determinants of the diffusion speed of new technologies
  • Analysis of technological progress mechanism of Chinese enterprises in transition period
  • Empirical study on technological innovation of manufacturing enterprises in Jiangsu, China
15: Non-Price Competition: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
  • Connotation and forms of M&A
  • Drivers of mergers
  • Rules for successful M&A
16: Non-Price Competition: Vertical Integration & Vertical Restraints
  • Strategic benefits and costs of vertical integration
  • Vertical disintegration and measurement of vertical integration degree
  • Vertical restraints
17: Market Performance & Industrial Organization Policy
  • Analysis of market performance
  • Connotation and theoretical basis of industrial organization policy
  • Anti-monopoly policy
  • Government regulation and deregulation

Course Resourse

Textbook of Industrial Economics

Textbook.

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Courseware of Industrial Economics

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Tips of Industrial Economics

This work was produced by renowned industrial economists, but may not be suitable for general economics students.