The Power of Markets III: Input Markets and Promoting Efficiency

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The Power of Markets III: Input Markets and Promoting Efficiency

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About this course: 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…

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About this course: 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.

Created by:  University of Rochester
  • Taught by:  Mark Zupan, Professor of Economics and Public Policy

    Simon School of Business
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WEEK 1


Week 9 - Product Pricing With Monopoly Power
Price Discrimination. Firm Behavior in Cases of Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.


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  1. Video: Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Peak-Load Pricing
  2. Video: Two-Part Tariffs
  3. Video: Monopolistic Competition
  4. Video: Oligopoly and the Cournot Model
  5. Video: The Dominant Firm Model
  6. Video: Cartels and Collusion
  7. Video: OPEC
  8. Video: Game Theory
  9. Video: Prisoner’s Dilemma
  10. Video: Repeated Games

Graded: Week 9 Quiz

WEEK 2


Week 10 - Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
Imperfect Information. The Efficiency Effects of Monopoly. Firm, Industry, and Market Demand for an Input.


9 videos expand


  1. Video: Asymmetric Information
  2. Video: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
  3. Video: Limited Price Information and Advertising
  4. Video: The Size of the Deadweight Loss of Monopoly
  5. Video: Do Monopolies Suppress Innovations?
  6. Video: Natural Monopoly
  7. Video: on Game Theory: Iterated Dominance and Commitment
  8. Video: The Input Demand Curve of a Competitive Firm
  9. Video: Industry and Market Demand Curves for an Input

Graded: Week 10 Quiz

WEEK 3


Week 11 - The Market for Inputs
The Supply of Inputs and the Determination of Input Prices.


10 videos expand


  1. Video: The Supply of Inputs
  2. Video: Industry Determination of the Price and Employment of Inputs
  3. Video: Input Price Determination in a Multi-Industry Market
  4. Video: Input Demand and Employment by an Output Market Monopoly
  5. Video: Monopsony in Input Markets
  6. Video: The Income-Leisure Choice of the Worker
  7. Video: The Supply of Hours of Work
  8. Video: The General Level of Wage Rates and Why Wages Differ
  9. Video: Economic Rent
  10. Video: Monopoly Power in Input Markets: Unions

Graded: Week 11 Quiz

WEEK 4


Week 12 - Can Government Intervention Improve Market Outcomes?
Using Input Market Theory to Analyze the Minimum Wage, Social Security,Immigration, and the NCAA. Promoting Market Efficiency and Why Government Intervention in Markets May be Justified.


10 videos expand


  1. Video: The Minimum Wage
  2. Video: Who Really Pays for Social Security?
  3. Video: The NCAA Cartel
  4. Video: The Benefits and Costs of Immigration
  5. Video: Three Conditions for Economic Efficiency
  6. Video: Reasons for Government Intervention
  7. Video: Externalities and Public Goods
  8. Video: Externalities
  9. Video: Externalities and Property Rights
  10. Video: Controlling Pollution, Revisited

Graded: Week 12 Quiz
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