What's New in Economics 511

Thursday, November 30:

  • Lecture 27: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (W Nov 29)

    Monday, November 27:

  • Lecture 26: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (M Nov 27)
    This document contains links to all the webpages we visited during the lecture.
  • Article on dot com vultures: "Overstock.com Feeds on Assets Of Distressed Web 'E-Tailers'"
  • A collection of news articles about jewelry e-tailers

    Friday, November 24:

  • Lecture 24: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (M Nov 20)
  • Lecture 25: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (W Nov 22)
    This document contains links to all the webpages we visited during the lecture.

    Saturday, November 18:

  • Lecture 23: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (W Nov 15)
  • Article: "Selling Motors to Mops, Unglamorous Grainger Is a Web-Sales Star"
  • Article: "Web Competition Trips Grainger"

    Wednesday, November 8:

  • Lecture 22: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (W Nov 8)

    Monday, November 6:

  • Lecture 21: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (M Nov 6)

    Saturday, November 4:

  • Lectures 19, 20: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (M Oct 30, W Nov 1)
    This document contains links to all the webpages we visited during the lectures.

    Monday, October 30:

  • Three articles:
    "Auctions on the Internet: What's Being Auctioned and How"
    "Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce"
    "Reputation in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay"
    (Some of the content of the third article is pretty technical. But you can skip the technical stuff and still understand the article pretty well.)

    Monday, October 23:

  • Lectures 17, 18: Lecture Notes/Transparencies (M Oct 23, W Oct25)
  • Results of Our In-Class Auctions
  • Results from the Evening Econ 511 Auctions
  • Bid Analyzer Excel Spreadsheet

    Monday, October 16:

  • Lecture 14: Introductory transparencies (W Oct 11)
  • Lecture 15: Lecture notes (M Oct 16)
  • Several articles about auctions

    Tuesday, October 3:

  • Lecture 10: Lecture Notes (W Sept 27)
  • A slightly revised version of the Lecture 11 Transparencies
  • Article: "'Business-Method' Patents Create Growing Controversy"

    Monday, October 2:

  • Lecture 11: Transparencies (M Oct 2) (Revised; see above)
  • Articles: "The Next Chapter" and "On the Web, Price Tags Blur"

    Monday, September 25:

  • Lecture 9: Lecture Notes (M Sept 25)

    Saturday, September 23:

  • A number of articles on content websites, pricing and advertising, and intellectual property and copyright law.

    Thursday, September 21:

  • Lecture 6: PowerPoint presentation (W Sept 12)
  • Lecture 7: PowerPoint presentation (M Sept 17)
  • Lecture 8: Lecture Notes (W Sept 19)

    Tuesday, September 12:

  • Assignment: Semester Projects

    Thursday, August 31:

  • Several articles about content websites (websites that provide information), their financing, and advertising.

    Wednesday, August 30:

  • Lecture 3: PowerPoint presentation (W August 30)
  • Lecture 3: Lecture Notes (W August 30)

    Monday, August 28:

  • Lecture 2: Lecture Notes (M August 28)

    Friday, August 25:

  • Lecture 1 PowerPoint presentation (W August 23)

    Monday, August 21:

  • You'll probably find it helpful to read So Long Supply and Demand before Wednesday.
  • You might also want to take a look at the chapter on industry (or market) equilibrium, with entry and exit by firms, in the microeconomics textbook from your Econ 500 course.

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