Assignment Topics (INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS)

S.No.	Univ. Roll No.	Name of the student	title
1	91001	Abhinav Tayal	Evolution of Industrial Economics
2	91002	Akshat Jain	Chicago School of Thought and Its view on market power
3	91003	Ashish Jain	Linear SCP model
4	91004	Avneesh Asija	Industrial Development of India since Independence
5	91005	Banshika Garg	Determinants of Conglomerate diversification
6	91006	Danish Ahmed	Arrow’s and Economics of research
7	91007	Eshan Gupta	Public Policy towards mergers
8	91008	Ghausia Fatima	Interactive SCP model
9	91009	Jaismeet Poonia	Merger Policy and FDI in India
10	91010	Karan Mago	Market Structure and Incentive to invent
11	91011	Kriti Patwal	Scale Economics and Market concentration
12	91012	Lipika Mahajan	Economics of scale as barriers to entry
13	91013	Mohit Makhija	Consequences of conglomerate diversification
14	91014	Neha Khanna	Measures of inequality: Lorenz curve & Gini coefficient
15	91015	Nupur Goyal	Stigler’s life cycle hypothesis
16	91016	Pranay Chawla	Demsetz, Stieglitz’s view on barriers to entry
17	91017	Prateek Jain	Horizontal Mergers: Williamson model
18	91018	Priyank Khemka	Limit Pricing Theory
19	91019	Puneet Bansal	Stochastic approach and market concentration
20	91020	Rachit Suneja	Strategic Entry Deterrence
21	91021	Radhika Gupta	Vertical Integration and successive monopolies
22	91022	Rajat Gupta	Indices of concentration and empirical evidence
23	91023	Ravi Kumar	Competition Policy and its role in industrial development
24	91024	Rishabh Gautam	Bain’s Barriers to entry
25	91025	Rishabh Goyal	Application of Lorenz curve in inequality analysis
26	91026	Riya Srivastava	Technical Progress and phases of technical progress
27	91027	Sachin Jain	Structural transformation of Indian Economy in post NEP era
28	91028	Sapna Bhati	Theories of Market Concentration
29	91029	Saransh Srivastava	NEP and Industrial Development of India in post reform era
30	91030	Shreyak Bhardwaj	Product Proliferation as a deterrent to entry
31	91031	Sidharth Kanojia	Conglomerate Diversification and its measures
32	91032	Srishty Chawla	Theories of Vertical Integration
33	91033	Surbhi Goel	Measurement criterion of market concentration
34	91034	Surbhi Varshney	Diffusion of new techniques
35	91035	Vandita Taneja	Monopolistic motives for Vertical Integration
36	91036	Varun Mehra	Barriers to entry and contestable markets
37	91037	Vipul Lal	Vertical Integration and Monopoly
38	91038	Yukti Arora	Horizontal Mergers : Leibenstein model

Last date of submission 21^st August 2011

Syllabus Industrial Economics

Semester - III
PAPER – 302
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
UNIT 1: STRUCTURE - CONDUCT - PERFORMANCE PARADIGM
The Simple SCP model/framework with and without feedback, its critique and modified framework with feedback.

UNIT 2: MARKET CONCENTRATION
Definition of the market, nature and measurement of market concentration, indices of concentration, inequality measures. Theories of measurement: deterministic and stochastic approach.

UNIT 3: BARRIERS TO ENTRY
Concepts to Barriers to Entry by Bain, Stigler. Sources to Barriers to Entry, Limit Pricing Theory, Strategic Entry deterrence, Contestable markets.

UNIT 4: VERTICAL INTEGRATION CONGLOMERATE DIVERSIFICATION & MERGERS
Conglomerate Diversification: Concepts, measures, determinants and consequences of diversification, Mergers, FDI
Vertical Integration: Nature and extent of vertical integration, theories of vertical integration, monopolistic motives for integration

UNIT 5: TECHNICAL PROGRESS & PERFORMANCE
Economics of Research, Market structure and incentive to invent, Concepts by Arrow,
Demsetz, Schumpeter.
Concepts of Profit margins, Productivity and Technical efficiency

Main Reading
1. Industrial Economics by Roger Clarke

Supplementary Readings
1 Stephen Martin, Industrial Economics.
2 Fergusen and Fergusen. Industrial Economics.
3 Giles Burgess, Industrial Organisation.
4 Stephen Martin, Advanced Industrial Economics

Syllabus Economic Policy and Comparative Development

Semester VI

B. A. (Hons.) Business Economics

Optional Group E: Paper xviii

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POLICY

UNIT 1: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS

· A Very Short Introduction (AVSI), Characteristics of Development pp 1-29

· Development Economics, Chapter-2

· Economic Development, Michael. P. Todaro, Chapter 1 and 2

UNIT 2: GROWTH MODELS

· DE, Chapter-3 Economic Growth, Section-3.3.1(pp 51-56) and Section 3.5 (pp 74-84).

· DE, Chapter 10, pp 353-371 (LEWIS MODEL)

· Introduction to Economic Growth pp20-53 (THE BASIC SOLOW MODEL)

Note- Solow Model shall be covered before Convergence (Section 3.5)

UNIT 3: HUMAN CAPITAL- EDUCATION, INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL & POVERTY.

· Meier pp 450-459 (Education investment in Human Capital)

· Michael P Todaro , Economic Development, Chapter 9 (Human Capital : Education & Health n Economic Development)

UNIT 4: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS

· Introduction to Economic Growth Chapter 4 & Chapter 5 (up till Page 110)

· Development Economics, Chapter 4 , Section 4.4.4 & 4.4.5

· Growth and Development, A.P Thirwall Chapter 14 (up till page 499) also included are pp 525 -536

· Meier, Section VIII, pp 381-405 (International Trade and International Inequality)

UNIT 5: STATE AND THE MARKET

· F Hayami , Chapter-8 (up till page 212) and also included are pp 233-239

References:

· Debraj Ray, Development Economics, DE, Princeton University Press 1998

· Charles Jones, Introduction to Economic Growth, Second Edition

· Partha Dasgupta, Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2007

· Meier, Leading Issues in Economic Development, 5th edition

· Michael.P.Todaro, Economic Development,8th edition.

· F Hayami, Economics (as per the previous syllabus) 61

· A.P Thirwall, Growth and Development ,7th edition

HOUSE EXAM QUESTION PAPER

Department of Business Economics / Maharaja Agrasen College /Paper XXI Environmental Economics / B.A. (Hons) VI th Semester Exam.

Attempt any four questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. A) “Perhaps year 1987 was a landmark development for institutional development in environmental economics.” Comment. 5

OR

B) What is social limits to growth and how Daly’s proposition relates to the desirability of growth, rather than its feasibility? 5

2. Write short notes on any two: 2 ½ * 2

a) Environmental Kuznets Curve & evidence on EKC hypothesis

b) Limits to Growth

c) Demographic Theory of Transition & impact of population growth on environment

d) Biodiversity and instrument for conserving biodiversity

e) The Hartwick rule

3. Briefly discuss the concepts of sustainability and explain the concept of sustainable, sustained and survivable development with the help of consumption function. 2 ½ + 2 ½

4. Critically evaluate the role of government in the conservation of environment and to correct market failure in public goods. 4 + 1
5. List the criterion used for selection of pollution control instruments and present a classification of pollution control instruments. Why command and control instruments are preferred over market based instruments in developing countries? 2+2+1
6. Discuss the institutional arrangements required for an efficient allocation of resources. How the presence of externalities cause to market failure. 2 ½ + 2 ½
7. Explain institutional approaches, with suitable diagram, which facilitate internalization of externalities. Why design of policy instruments is more difficult for mobile than for stationary source pollutants? 2 ½ +2 ½
8. A) Explain how hedonic price theory can be used in determining the demand or marginal willingness to pay for non-marketed commodities? 5

OR

B) Explain the Travel Cost Approach of assessing an individual’s willingness to pay for an environmental resource such as a recreational site. 5