Professor Lorin Hitt

Next Offering: Spring 2008 for OPIM960

Update:  The new (Spring, 2008) course description is now available (see bottom of the page) - this outlines the course plan and workload.  We will be having an organizing meeting at 4:30PM-~6PM on Tuesday, January 22 in the assigned room (JMHH540 - OPIM Conference Room).  We will:  1) Plan the regular meeting time (the existing time conflicts with OPIM900), 2) Do an overview of the ISE field.  If you cannot make it but are interested in the class, please e-mail me.

Overview

These two courses provide an overview of the literature and research methods relevant to the study of information strategy and economics. This course is mandatory for ISE doctoral students, one of the core electives for OPIM doctoral students, and highly recommended for doctoral students in other departments interested in the economics of information technology. Core topics include:

• Information Technology and Productivity
• Information Technology and Organizational Design
• Skill-biased Technical Change/IT and Wage Inequality
• The Information Processing View of the Firm
• IT and Contract Theory
• Transactions Cost Economics, Incomplete Contracts and Outsourcing
• Information Technology in Financial Markets
• Offshoring
• Network Economics (two-sided markets, network externalities, standards)
• Social Networks
• Competition on the Internet
• Information and Price Discrimination
• Search Economics and Price Dispersion
• Bundling and Unbundling
• Information Goods
• Economics of Systems Development
• Open Source Software
• IT Labor Issues

New course outline (for Spring, 2008) appears below.