ECON 271CMathematical Theory in Industrial Organization
Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Formal modeling of theory of industrial organization: principal-agent problem, entry deterrence, endogenous price discrimination, monopolistic competition, new approaches to rationality.
S/U 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
Requisites: courses 201A, 201B, 201C.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 271C
- ECON 201AMicroeconomics: Theory of Firm and Consumer
- ECON 201BMicroeconomics: Basic Concepts and Techniques of Noncooperative Game Theory and Information Economics
- ECON 201CMicroeconomics: Game Theory with Asymmetric Information and Applications
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.