Economics 426:  Antitrust Economics

Spring 2010

Prof. Steven Puller (puller@econmail.tamu.edu)

Office Hours for Spring 2010:  Monday 3-4:30pm, Friday 11am-noon, or by appointment, Allen 3046.

Syllabus    

Handouts:

• Syllabus  (1/19/10)

• Paper Assignment (1/26/10)

• Sample Questions for First Midterm (2/23/10)

• Handouts for Natural Gas Lecture (2/23/10)

• Handout for California Electricity Crisis (3/25/10)

• Handout for Price Cap Debate (3/30/10)

• Dataset for Arbitrage in California:  Formats: Excel,  STATA,  csv.  (3/30/10)

• Graphs for Arbitrage in California (4/1/10)

• Review Questions for Second Midterm (4/1/10)

• Review Questions for Third Midterm (4/27/10)

Some Useful Links

• Companion website for The Antitrust Revolution

• American Enterprise Institute Center for Regulatory and Market Studies

• Cato Institute - Regulatory Studies

• Federal Trade Commission

• U.S. Dept of Justice Antitrust Division

• Federal Communications Commission

• Department of Transportation

• Antitrust Case Browser

• Energy Market Links

• Web Resources on Industrial Organization

• Electricity Links

  • Energy Institute at Haas

  • Harvard Electricity Policy Group Links

  • Electricity Database

  • Data from restructured electricity markets

  Good website with musings by economists:  The Economists' Voice

And some popular economists' blogs:

• Greg Mankiw

• Steve Levitt

• Paul Krugman

• Brad DeLong