Group Project Requirement - Guidelines

Please send me the final presentation file before the last day of the
semester.

the project is individual or in groups, where you get to pick a topic
 we covered or not yet and that I can wait to cover/not cover 
if you want to present that topic to the class.

It can be a project describing a case (antitrust case) explaining 
to the class the defendants arguments and the prosecution
 ones how it was ruled or, still in progress, how you would rule.

It can be about an advertisement for a certain company, about 
the effects you think that add should have on market power of firms
 in market, on price levels, consumers, etc.

Requirement 1: ------------------------------------------
Please send me by the second
class after Spring Break:

1- A title for your project 
2- short description
3- Name of students in group


Here are two examples of what I am expecting from you at this point:

Example 1:
1- A title for your project 
Effects of "We will not be undersold, guaranteed" advertisements on price collusion 

2- Short description:
We will describe to you a certain model of competition in prices 
for homogeneous goods and what are the possible effects, 
in the static context as well as in the dynamic context, 
from firms making such "advertisements" common knowledge . 
We will focus especially on the effects on the possibility of 
collusion in prices.

Example 2:
1- Utah Pie Case on Price Discrimination
 2- We will describe the basic issues in the case, what are each 
side arguments and what kind of evidence was found. 
We will discuss the outcome given the Robinson Patman act
 

Requirement 2:-------------------------------------------
Student presentation during the class on May 6th.

Here are some suggestions/Guidelines for presentation:
You don't have to fulfill all of the points.
Prepare a 15-20 minute presentation.


Case presentations:
1. What was/is the case about? does this relate to anything we learned in class?
2. Who are the parties involved?
3. What is the ruling? Do you agree?
3. Discuss the main points. 

Other presentations:
1. what is the interesting economic phenomenon? 
2. Why is it interesting? Why do you/we care about that phenomenon? 
3. What do you think could be causing this phenomenon?
4. Can you think of a model that could describe what is going on?
5. Could you think of a way to "prove" that it is indeed what is going on?
6. How would you design an "experiment" to address the above?
7. What kind of data would you like to have?
8. Do you think the data is easy to get/reasonable?
9. Did you find a study already addressing this issue?