15.013  Industrial Economics for Strategic Decisions

Hi everyone - two important items for this and next week:

1. Final Exam

• The review sessions for the final exam will be held this Friday and Saturday (December 9 and 10), from 2 – 4 PM, in room E51-345. We will go over the two practice exams that were handed out in class, skim through the major class topics, and go into detail wherever you have questions. Please work through at least one of the practice exams before attending, as this will help the discussion.
• Please remember: the final exam, held in class on Monday, December 12, will be closed-book, and no electronic devices (calculators, PDAs, etc.) will be allowed. However, you can bring to the exam on 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, double-sided with notes. Please make every effort to get to class early – the exam will start promptly at 10:05 (morning) and 1:05 (afternoon) and you will only be costing yourself time if you come late.
  

2. Last Day of class

Wednesday, December 14, will be our last class in 15.013.  We will spend the first 10 or 15 minutes briefly going over the Final Exam.  Then you will find out who your competitors were in the Strategic Oligopoly Game, and have a chance to meet with them and discuss what happened over the semester.  (You can finally find out why they set prices and output levels in such a crazy way, and why they failed to understand what you were doing.)  

That will leave about 40 minutes, which Professor Pindyck would like to use to answer any questions and discuss any issues that you would like to raise.  If there is a particular topic or question that you would like him to address, please send him an email in advance of the class (rpindyck@mit.edu). Professor Pindyck has found in the past that there are often topics that several students want him to talk about.  If he knows what those topics are, he can plan to address them on the 14th.

Thanks, and good luck on the exam,
The 15.013 TAs

Class -

A few announcements for the week, especially given the Thanksgiving holiday:

- Exercise 8 is due in class on Wednesday. We realize that some of you have plans to leave town early and may not be attending class Wednesday. If this is the case, but you still want to turn in the homework, please drop it off in the e62 hallway folder of your section's TA (Section A - Gautham Iyer; Section B - Tomas Ingason)
- Class on Monday, November 28 will cover network externalities; the readings include lecture notes, an article, and the Philips case; please read the assigned materials and look over the questions we've posted on stellar to help facilitate the classroom discussion
- We will post Exercise 9 on stellar on Wednesday and hand it out in class; this exercise will be due on Monday, December 5; please remember that one of your exercise grades will be dropped
- Study materials (old exams) for the final will be handed out in class on Wednesday 23rd, and posted then on Stellar

Thanks, and have a wonderful holiday!!
Tomas and Gautham

Dear all-

Reminders for tomorrow:

- Please come to class early if you can, so we can place you in groups. We will be starting promptly at 10:05 in the morning and 1:05 in the afternoon
- Please bring your laptops to class containing the spreadsheet you worked on for exercise 6. Having it on hand may help you in the course of the negotiation

See you in class,
Gautham