ECON 106SCompetitive Strategy
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of competitive strategy and competitive advantage using game theoretic models and case studies. Topics include economics of scale, network effects, switching costs, and platform markets. Written final project and presentation required.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 11, 101. Enforced corequisite: course 106SL.
BruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 106S
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 106SLCompetitive Strategy Laboratory
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 12 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ECON 106S
- ECON 106SLCompetitive Strategy Laboratory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.