Econ 480: Industrial Competition and Monopoly, UIUC

*My teaching of this course received University of Illinois List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students award (top 10%) multiple times.

Econ 481: Government Regulations, UIUC

The course covers recent antitrust topics including Horizontal and Vertical mergers, Price-fixing and Cartels, Monopolization, Damage Estimation, Tying and Bundling Sales and Patent Infringement. You can get access to the course material here.

*My teaching of this course received University of Illinois List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students award (top 10%) multiple times.

Law 199: Law, Politics and Economics, UIUC

The course covers the economic principles behind firms’ competitive behavior and the fundamentals fo the U.S. competition laws. The course discusses the topics of various market structures including Competition, Monopoly, Cartel and Collusion, Horizontal Mergers and Vertical Integrations and also important law frameworks including the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the FTC Act, 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. You can get access to the course material here.

*My teaching of this course received University of Illinois List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students award in 2022-2023.

Law 797: Economics and Law of Digital Platforms, UIUC

This course covers the economics and law of digital platforms. The course discusses the novel business models and important features associated with digital platforms and examine firms’ abuse of dominance conducts in the digital space. The course also explores the recent development in the antitrust regulation of digital platforms and review the recent cases involving major digital platforms (e.g., Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook).

*This is a short online course to be offered in Spring 2024.

Econ 571: Economics of Digital Platforms, USC

This course covers the economics analyses of digital platforms. The course discusses the novel competition models and important features associated with digital platforms and examine firms’ abuse of dominance conducts in the digital space. The course also explores the recent development in the antitrust regulation of digital platforms and review the recent cases involving major digital platforms (e.g., Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft).

*This course will be offered in Fall and Spring 2023-2024.

Econ 480: Economics of Industrial Organization, USC

The course covers topics including firms’ competition behavior including Perfect and Imperfect Competition, Monopoly, Dominant Firm with a Competitive Fringe, Monopolistic Competition, Bertrand, Cournot, Stackelberg, Cartels and Collusion, Horizontal and Vertical Merger. The course also discusses antitrust regulation and explore recent antitrust cases involving firms’ monopolization, collusion and merger conducts.