Description
Pepall's Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Empirical Applications, 5th Edition offers an accessible text in which topics are organized in a manner that motivates and facilitates progression from one chapter to the next. It serves as a complete, but concise, introduction to modern industrial economics.
The text uniquely uses the tools of game theory, information economics, contracting issues, and practical examples to examine multiple facets of industrial organization. The fifth edition is more broadly accessible, balancing the tension between making modern industrial analysis accessible while also presenting the formal abstract modeling that gives the analysis its power. The more overtly mathematical content is presented in the Contemporary Industrial Organization text (aimed at the top tier universities) while this Fifth Edition will less mathematical (aimed at a wider range of four-year colleges and state universities.
Features
Provides a comprehensive guide to industrial organization in the imperfect market conditions of the real world.
The most accessible text conveying the vitality and relevance of industrial organization—both in theory and practice.
Discussion of a single empirical study in each chapter.
End-of-chapter summaries, problems, references, in addition to many appendices, all integrated within the text.
New To This Edition
Empirical Applications in each chapter doubles the amount of empirical content from the previous edition.
Flexible Pedagogical Approach: Content and material can be covered using either calculus or a non-calculus approach.
New chapter on strategic interaction as it applies to international competition and the scope this introduces for strategic trade policies.
The two chapters on price-fixing and anti-trust policy vis-à-vis collusion (Chapter 14 and 15 in 4th edition) are streamlined and combined into one chapter.
The two chapters on advertising (Chapter 20 and 21 in 4th edition) are streamlined and combined into one chapter.
Table of Contents About the Authors Preface to the Fifth Edition
Part One Foundations
1 Industrial Organization: What, How, and Why
2 Basic Microeconomics
3 Market Structure and Market Power
4 Technology and Cost
Part Two Monopoly Power in Theory and Practice
5 Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Linear Pricing
6 Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Nonlinear Pricing
7 Product Variety and Quality Under Monopoly
8 Commodity Bundling and Tie-In Sales
Part Three Strategic Interaction and Basic Oligopoly Models
9 Static Games and Cournot Competition
10 Oligopolistic Price Competition
11 Dynamic Games and First and Second Movers
Part Four Anticompetitive Behavior and Antitrust Policy
12 Entry Deterrence and Predation
13 Predatory Conduct: More Recent Developments
14 Price Fixing, Repeated Games, and Antitrust Policy
Part Five Contractual Relations Between Firms
15 Horizontal Mergers
16 Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers
17 Vertical Price Restraints
18 Non-Price Vertical Restraints
Part Six Non-Price Competition
19 Advertising, Market Power, and Information
20 Research and Development
21 Patents and Patent Policy
Part Seven Networks, Auctions, and Strategic Commitment
22 Network Issues
23 Auctions: Basic Theory and Applications
24 Strategic Commitments and International Trade