The economics of industrial organization : analysis, markets, policies
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The economics of industrial organization : analysis, markets, policies
Prentice-Hall, c1997
4th ed
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780135684863
Description
This text seeks to cover all topics in the field of industrial organization, including its history, schools of thought, forms of competition and monopoly, and monopoly's effect on performance. The text also contains two case study chapters: dominance (eight cases), and tight oligopoly (five cases). The sequence is designed to spotlight the structure-performance issue, encouraging readers to think about the basic question of causation.
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: pbk ISBN 9780137246670
Description
This text covers all the subjects in a business and government course, with a focus on the industrial organization.
Table of Contents
- Basic concepts: theories of competition and monopoly. Market structure: defining markets and categories of competition
- market structure and the U.S. economy. Performance: market power's effects on prices, profits and efficiency
- technological progress
- fairness in distribution and other values. Determinants of market structure: finance, mergers and public policies
- the economies and diseconomies of scale. Behaviour and related topics: the firm - concepts and conditions
- monopoly, dominance and entry
- price discrimination
- theories of oligopoly
- collusion in real markets
- vertical conditions, size and diversification
- product differentiation
- especially advertising. Industry case studies: dominant firms - Eastman Kodak, AT&T, Boeing, Newspapers
- tight oligopolies - cereals, sports, beer and airlines. Public policies: antitrust policies
- regulation, deregulation, and privatization
- further study. Appendices: history of the field
- the SIC system
- finance, accounting and discounting
- interpreting statistics.
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