Industrial organization : a strategic approach
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Industrial organization : a strategic approach
Irwin McGraw-Hill, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
Through an effective blend of analysis and examples this text integrates the game theory revolution with the traditional understanding of imperfectly competitive markets. The book's focus is on strategic competition and how firms can shelter their market power and economic profits from competitors. This focus establishes the intellectual foundation for determining business practices that warrant antitrust examination and prohibition and underlines recent activist antitrust policy. The author's stress an integrated understanding of industrial organization and the development of students' analytical abilities.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. The Welfare Economics of Market Power3. Theory of the Firm4. Market Power and Dominant Firms5. Nonlinear Pricing and Price Discrimination6. Market Power and Product Quality7. Game Theory I8. Classic Models of Oligopoly9. Game Theory II10. Dynamic Models of Oligopoly11. Product Differentiation12. Identifying and Measuring Market Power13. An Introduction to Strategic Behaviour14. Entry Deterrence15. Strategic Behavior: Principles16. Strategic Behavior: Applications17. Advertising and Oligopoly18. Research and Development19. The Theory of the Market 20. Exclusionary Strategies I: Raising Rivals' Costs21. Exclusionary Strategies II: Predatory Pricing22. Vertical Integration and Vertical Restraints23. Horizontal Mergers24. Rationale for Regulation25. Optimal Pricing and Natural Monopoly26. Issues in RegulationAppendix: The Legal Framework of Antitrust
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