Current Assignments for Econ 611

1. Assignment 1 (due Sept 15th)
2. Assignment 2 (due Sept 22th)
3. Assignment 3 (due Sept 29th)
4. Assignment 4 (due Oct 6th)
5. Study solutions to Assignment 1 (note, solution to problem 4 is actually the topic of a famous paper, Quantity Precommitment and Bertrand competition yield Cournot outcomes by David Kreps and Jose Scheinkman in the Bell Journal of Economics (1983)
6. (Optional) Look at my paper (with Bertel Schjerning and Fedor Iskhakov) on The Dynamics of Bertrand Competition with Cost-Reducing Investments which provides an infinite-horizon Markov-perfect equilibrium model of how two firms compete over time. This paper was motivated by the work I talked about in the first lecture on the collusion between the Australian cardboard producers Amcor and Visy. This model is the basis of my counterfactual or "but-for" model of what competition between the two firms would have been, absent the "collusion on the beach".
7. Do Assignment 5 (due Oct 13th)
8. Study Solutions to Assignment 2
9. Study solutions to Assignment 3
10. Study solutions to Assignment 4
11. Study A Simple Theory of Why and When Firms Go Public by Sudip Gupta and John Rust (2015) for hints to assignment 5.
12. Study solutions to Assignment 5