Prices & Markets - INSEAD MBA Core Course

This course analyzes the economics of managerial decision making. Our focus is on the economic fundamentals of businesses and industries: production and costs; demand for the product; production and pricing strategies; market equilibrium; competition between industry participants; and strategic decision making. The managerial decisions that we will address include price discrimination, capacity management, entry and exit decisions, and using strategic commitment.

PhD Teaching: Econometrics A & B

A first component of the core course of econometrics gives all theoretical and practical elements of linear econometrics: Randomized experiments, OLS, Panel data, Instrumental variables, Difference-in-Differences, Regression Discontinuity Design.
A second component introduces nonlinear econometrics: Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Probit, Logit, the Generalized Method of Moments, Dynamic Panel Data.

Session 1 - Introduction : Identification

Session 2 - Introduction : Inference

Session 3 - Ordinary Least Squares

Session 4 - Identification Issues in Ordinary Least Squares

Session 5 - Identification Issues in Ordinary Least Squares (C’ted)

Session 6 - Inference Issues in Ordinary Least Squares

Session 7 - IV Estimation

Session 8 - Finding Good Instrumental Variables: Identification Strategies

Session 9 - Panel Data Estimation

Session 10 - Bootstrapping


Caveat for the example questions: topics may be changing marginally across years.

Homework, January 2011

Instrumental variables, weighted OLS

April 2010 Exam

February 2008 Exam

PhD Teaching: Advanced Econometrics

This last component is a primer to the understanding of instrumental variables, matching procedures, the econometrics of social interactions.




Previous teaching
London School of Economics (Microeconomics), Sciences Po (Economics), ENSAE (Microeconomics).