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Mini case studies

Here are a series of "mini-cases" or "caselets" that I wrote (sometimes with colleagues at NYU Stern and before that at the London Business School). You are welcome to use these for educational purposes provided that you distribute them as they are, that is, with the appropriate headers and credits — and free of charge.

Costs and pricing

Monsanto's Roundup. It's the elasticity, stupid.
Wednesdays at Cinemex. Flicks and popcorn.
Merck, Aids, and Africa. Pitfalls of international price discrimination.
Eurotunnel. Sunk costs and other cheap puns.
The Airbus Beluga. Opportunity cost illustrated.

Firm, markets and public policy

DeBeers. Cartels are forever.
Jumbo Jet. Flying down the learning curve in first-generation widebody aircraft.
The Oil Market. Where politics meets economics.
Advertising Commodities. Got milk?
NYU Taxi Medallions. Better than gold or the stock market.
Has the Patent System Expired?. Some think it has.
The Portuguese Housing Market. Regulation pros and cons, dos and donts.

Antitrust

GE and Westinghouse. Tacit collusion.
Virgin Atlantic and British Airways. Crime and punishment — and leniency.
Spirit Airlines. If this is not predatory pricing, then what is?
The Failed GE-Honeywell Merger. It's the politics, stupid. Or: how a merger between two American firms was blocked by a European policymaker.
Microsoft. Friend or foe?
Mars and Unilever. Efficiency and fairness of exclusive contracts.

Industrial policy

Endesa. National champions.
Airbus and Boeing. My subsidy is bigger than yours.
Two Generations of Wireless Telecom. Setting the standard.

Entertainment and sports

Friends and Law & Order. Power games in TV shows.
The NBA in China. Exporting entertainment.
Formula 1. Another power game.

At this point, I don't have any teaching guide for these notes. I hope to have some in the near future. If you have any notes related to these cases, I would love to see them. Also, if you have any similar materials you would like to share with others, I will be happy to post them here. (See links below.) Finally, if you have any comments, suggestions, please send them to lcabral@stern.nyu.edu.

Additional examples and cases can be found in the website for my book Introduction to Industrial Organization.
Still more examples and cases can be found in the website for my book Economics of Entertainment.
Professor Ivan Png's Managerial Economics website includes varioius mini-cases in mangerial economics.

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