73-469 Course Calendar

Course Outline

Introduction

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Introductory Lecture: Network Economics
Thursday, August 27, 2009 In-class market experiment and discussion
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 The Market for Digital Good: An overview

Review of data from experiment

Thursday, September 03, 2009 The Dominant Firm

Ecommerce Market Organization

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

The Dominant Firm (continued)

Data Analysis due

Thursday, September 10, 2009 Differentiated Product Oligopoly
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Differentiated Product Oligopoly (continued)
Thursday, September 17, 2009 Problem Set 1 due at beginning of class

Problem Set 1 Review

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Differentiated Product Oligopoly (continued)
Thursday, September 24, 2009 Open Source and Intellectual Property
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Open Source and Intellectual Property (continued)
Thursday, October 01, 2009 Problem Set 2 Review

Problem Set 2 due at beginning of class

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 Open Source and Intellectual Property (continued)

Information and Efficiency

Thursday, October 08, 2009 Price Discrimination
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Intermediation and the Internet

Problem Set 3 due

Begin Online Asset Market Simulation

Oct. 12-19  Trial Run
Oct. 19- Nov. 13 Active Trading

Thursday, October 15, 2009 Guest Lecture: Roye Werner, Tepper Business Librarian

Assign teams for mid-term debate

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Video: The Persuaders

Oct. 22 & 27 Mid-term debate in class: Business models for the music industry

Financial Markets

Thursday, October 29, 2009 Electronic Payment Systems
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Electronic Payment Systems (continued)
Thursday, November 05, 2009 Online Financial Services: Asset Pricing, CAPM Model
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 CAPM (continued)
Thursday, November 12, 2009 Video: Trillion Dollar Bet

Internet Infrastructure

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Search
Thursday, November 19, 2009 Internet Infrastructure and Pricing

Problem Set 4 due

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 No class

Public Policy

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 Electronic Commerce and Public Policy
Thursday, December 03, 2009 Catch up and/or review

Asset market project report due

Take-home Final Exam distributed

Exam Due: Dec. 12, 5:00 PM

Course Outline