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Fall 2004 University of Wisconsin Economics 761: Theory of Industrial Organization Yeon-Koo Che • General Information: Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30-3:30 Contract Information: (Phone) 262-2819; (E-mail) yche@ Meeting Time and Place: MW 10:55-12:20 (except for certain Wednesdays) at SS6102. Class URL: / yche/Econ761.htm • Grading: 1. About 4-5 problem sets (group work allowed) 2. Final Take Home Exam (group work Not allowed): December 15-17 (tentative). • Useful Books Tirole, Jean, The Theory of Industrial Organization, MIT, 1988. Schmalensee and Willig, Handbook of Industrial Organization: Part I and II, Elsevier: Ams- terdam, 1988. Laffont and Tirole, A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation, MIT, 1993. Krishna, Auction Theory, Academic Press, 2002. READING LIST 1 Monotone Comparative Statics Methodologies * Milgrom, P., and Shannon C., 1994, “Monotone Comparative Statics,” Econometrica, 62: 157-180. Milgrom, P., and Roberts, J., 1994, “Comparing Equilibria,” American Economic Review, 84: 441- 459. Edlin, A., and Shannon, C., 1998, “Strict Monotonicity in Comparative Statics,” Journal of Eco- nomic Theory, 81: 201-219. (pdf in: /users/edlin/index.html) 2 The Theory of the Firm and Incomplete Contracts * Holmstr¨om, B., and Roberts, J., 1998, “The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited,” Journal of Eco- nomic Perspectives, 12, 73-94. 2.1 Holdup * Hart, O., 1995, Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure, Clarendon Press, Oxford (Chapters 1 and 2). 1 Grout, P.A. (1984). “Investment and Wages in the Absence of Binding Contracts: A Nash Bargaining Approach,” Econometrica, 52, 449-460. Tirole, J. (1986). “Procurement and Renegotiation,” Jou