ECON 171
Industrial Organization: Policy and Regulation
Grades
3.23
Average grade awarded in ECON 171. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
42%
of the 33 letter grades
D, F or W
3.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 33 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 2.73 to 3.52.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 21.2%
- A 5 · 15.2%
- A- 2 · 6.1%
- B+ 6 · 18.2%
- B 5 · 15.2%
- B- 4 · 12.1%
- C 2 · 6.1%
- C- 1 · 3.0%
- F 1 · 3.0%
Percentages are of the 33 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUBENS, MICHAEL AUGUST reviews ↗ | 3.40 | 3.52 | 21 | 1 | 52% | - | not teaching it |
| HOPENHAYN, HUGO ANDRES reviews ↗ | 3.03 | 2.73 | 12 · | 1 | 25% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 101. Enforced corequisite: course 171L. Recommended requisite: course 103. Preparation: calculus. Designed to give foundation in topics within field of industrial organization relating to regulation of monopoly power within economy and different way that that manifests across firm conduct and industrial settings. Particular attention to topics in antitrust policy, with some exploration of intersection between economics and law. Topics include in-depth analysis of cartels and mergers, including abstract theory and specifics of analytical approaches deployed in enforcement by Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. P/NP or letter grading.
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