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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Industrial Organization: What, How, and Why? | |
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| What Is Industrial Organization? | |
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| How We Study Industrial Organization | |
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| Why? Antitrust and Industrial Organization Theory Summary Problems References Appendix: Excerpts from Key Antitrust Statutes | |
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| Basic Microeconomics | |
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| Competition versus Monopoly: The Poles of Market Performance | |
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| Profit Today versus Profit Tomorrow: Firm Decision-making over Time | |
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| Efficiency, Surplus, and Size Relative to the Market Summary Problems References | |
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| Market Structure and Market Power | |
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| Measuring Market Structure | |
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| Measuring Market Power | |
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| Empirical Application: Monopoly Power-How Bad Is It? Summary Problems References | |
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| Technology and Cost | |
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| Production Technology and Cost Functions for the Single-product Firms | |
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| Sunk Cost and Market Structure | |
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| Costs and Multiproduct Firms | |
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| Noncost Determinants of Industry Structure | |
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| Empirical Application: Cost Function Estimation-Scale and Scope Economies Summary Problems References | |
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| Monopoly Power in Theory and Practice | |
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| Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Linear Pricing | |
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| Feasibility of Price Discrimination | |
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| Third-degree Price Discrimination or Group Pricing | |
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| Implementing Third-degree Price Discrimination or Group Pricing | |
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| Product Variety and Third-degree Price Discrimination or Group Pricing | |
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| Third-degree Price Discrimination or Group Pricing and Social Welfare Summary Problems References | |
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| Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Non-linear Pricing | |
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| First-degree Price Discrimination or Personalized Pricing | |
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| Second-degree Price Discrimination or Menu Pricing | |
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| Social Welfare with First- and Second-degree Price Discrimination Summary Problems References | |
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| Product Variety and Quality Under Monopoly | |
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| A Spatial Approach to Horizontal Product Differentiation | |
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| Monopoly and Horizontal Differentiation | |
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| Is There Too Much Product Variety? | |
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| Monopoly and Horizontal Differentiation with Price Discrimination | |
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| Vertical Product Differentiation | |
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| Empirical Application: Price Discrimination, Product Variety, and Monopoly versus Competition Summary Problems References Appendix A: Location Choice with Two Shops Appendix B: The Monopolist's Choice of Price When Her Shops Have Different Costs | |
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| Commodity Bundling and Tie-in Sales | |
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| Commodity Bundling and Price Discrimination | |
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| Required Tie-in Sales | |
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| Complementary Goods, Network Externalities, and Monopoly Pricing | |
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| Antitrust, Bundling, and Tie-in Sales Summary Problems References Appendix: Formal Proof on the Inefficiency Induced by the Marketing of Complementary Goods by Separate Monopolists | |
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| Oligopoly and Strategic Interaction | |
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| Static Games and Cournot Competition | |
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| Strategic Interaction: Introduction to Game Theory | |
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| Dominant and Dominated Strategies | |
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| Nash Equilibrium as a Solution Concept | |
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| Static Models of Oligopoly: The Cournot Model | |
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| Variations on the Cournot Theme: Many Firms and Different Costs | |
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| Concentration and Profitability in the Cournot Model Summary Problems References | |
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| Price Competition | |
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| The Bertrand Duopoly Model | |
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| Bertrand Reconsidered | |
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| Bertrand in a Spatial Setting | |
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| Strategic Complements and Substitutes | |
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| Empirical Application: Brand Competition and Consumer Preferences-Evidence from the California Retail Gasoline Market Summary Problems References | |
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| Dynamic Games and First and Second Movers | |
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| The Stackelberg Model of Quantity Competition | |
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| Sequential Price Competition | |
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| Credibility of Threats and Na | |