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The Theory of Industrial Organization is the first primary text to treat the new industrial organization at the advanced-undergraduate and graduate level. Rigorously analytical and filled with exercises coded to indicate level of difficulty, it provides a unified and modern treatment of the field with accessible models that are simplified to highlight robust economic ideas while working at an intuitive level. To aid students at different levels, each chapter is divided into a main text and supplementary section containing more advanced material. Each chapter opens with elementary models and builds on this base to incorporate current research in a coherent synthesis. Tirole begins with a background discussion of the theory of the firm.In Part I he develops the modern theory of monopoly, addressing single product and multi product pricing, static and intertemporal price discrimination, quality choice, reputation, and vertical restraints. In Part II, Tirole takes up strategic interaction between firms, starting with a novel treatment of the Bertrand-Cournot interdependent pricing problem. He studies how capacity constraints, repeated interaction, product positioning, advertising, and asymmetric information affect competition or tacit collusion. He then develops topics having to do with long term competition, including barriers to entry, contestability, exit, and research and development. He concludes with a game theory user's manual and a section of review exercises.Important Notice- The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press LTD
ISBN-139780262200714
eBay Product ID (ePID)89608043
Product Key Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
Publication NameThe Theory of Industrial Organization
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1988
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaFamily Sociology
AuthorJean Tirole
SeriesThe Mit Press
Dimensions
Item Height254 mm
Item Weight1216 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJean Tirole