Modern industrial organization

Pearson/Addison Wesley

2005

xxiii, 822 p.

Addison-Wesley series in economics

9780321180230

Contents: I. Introduction and Theory : 1. Overview ; 2. The Firm and Costs ; II. Market Structures : 3. Competition ; 4. Monopolies, Monopsonies, and Dominant Firms ; 5. Cartels ; 6. Oligopoly ; 7. Product Differentiation and Monopolistic Competition ; 8. Industry Structure and Performance ; III. Business Practices: strategies and conduct : 9. Price Discrimination ; 10. Advanced Topics in Pricing ; 11. Strategic Behavior ; 12. Vertical Integration and Vertical Restrictions ; IV. Information, advertising, and Disclosure : 13. Information ; 14. Advertising and Disclosure ; V. Dynamic Models and Market Clearing : 15. Decision Making Over Time: Durability ; 16. Patents and Technological Change ; 17. How Markets Clear: Theory and Facts ; VI. Government Policies and Their Effects : 18. International Trade ; 19. Antitrust Laws and Policy ; 20. Regulation and Deregulation

Problems -- Suggested Readings -- Appendix 9A -- An Example of Price Discrimination: Agricultural Marketing Orders -- Example 9.1 -- Coupons -- Example 9.2 -- Thank You, Doctor -- Example 9.3 -- Halting Drug Sales from Canada -- Example 9.4 -- Vertical Integration as a Means of Price Discrimination: Alcoa Shows Its True Metal -- Example 9.5 -- A Discriminating Labor Union -- Example 9.6 -- Does Competition Always Lower Price?

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