| Weeks |
Lecture Topics |
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Week 1 |
Topic 1: Theory of the Firm and its Objectives | 
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Weeks 2 & 3 |
Topic 1: Theory of the firm and its objectives | |
| Week 4 | No lecture this week | |
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Week 5 |
Topic 2: Market Concentration, absolute & relative drift, L.P.E handout | |
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Week 6 |
Topic 2: Market Concentration, market definition | |
| Week 7 | Topic 2: Market Concentration | |
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Weeks 8&9 |
Topic 3: The SCP vs. the revisionist approach | |
| Week 10 | Topic 4: Barriers to entry | |
| Week 11 | Topic 4: Barriers to entry | |
| *************Christmas & New Year Break************* | ||
| Week 1 | Topic 5: Product Differentiation; horizontal product differentiation | |
| Week 2 | Topic 5: Product Differentiation; advertising | |
| Week 3 ) | Topic 6: Innovation |
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| Week 4 | Topic 6: Innovation R.J. Gilbert and M.L.Katz, An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft, February 2001. |
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| Week 5 | Topic 6: Innovation & Topic 7: Welfare and Market structure |
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| Week 6 | Topic 7 | |
| Week 7 | Topic 7 | |
| Week 8 | Topic 8: Privatisation | |
| Week 9 | Topic 8 | |
| Week 10 | Revision |
