Preface -- Supply, demand, and equilibrium -- Prices, costs, and the gains from trade -- The behavior of consumers -- Consumers in the marketplace -- The behavior of firms -- Production and costs -- Competition -- Welfare economics and the gains from trade -- Knowledge and information -- Monopoly --
Price Theory & Applications
✍ Scribed by B. Peter Pashigian
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill/Irwin
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 784
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
Intermediate Microeconomics Theory or Applied Microeconomics in Economics and B-Schools and possibly Managerial Economics courses. Core material is covered with in-depth empirical applications and select optional topics.
✦ Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Part I—Introduction: Supply and Demand
Chapter 1—Pricing and the Demand and Supply Model
Part II-Consumer Behavior
Chapter 2—Consumer Behavior and Market Demand
Chapter 3—Extending the Theory of Consumer Behavior
Chapter 4—The Cost of Time and the Theory of Consumer Behavior
Part III—The Firm: Its Technology and Costs
Chapter 5—The Production Function and Costs of the Firm
Chapter 6—The Cost Functions of the Firm
Part IV—Firm and Market Behavior
Chapter 7—The Supply Functions of a Competitive Firm
Chapter 8—Price Determination in a Competitive Industry
Chapter 9—Monopoly
Chapter 10—Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 11—Monitoring the Corporation: Corporate Governance
Part V—Pricing: Practices and Policies
Chapter 12—Price Discrimination
Chapter 13—The Free Rider Problem and Pricing
Chapter 14—Market Behavior with Asymmetric Information
Chapter 15—Pricing under Uncertainty
Part VI—Intertemporal Equilibrium and Factor Markets
Chapter 16—Consumer and Supplier Behavior over Time
Chapter 17—Wage Determination in Labor Markets
Part VII—Markets and Economic Efficiency
Chapter 18—Economic Efficiency and General Equilibrium
Chapter 19—Externalities and Public Goods
Suggested Answers to Selected Exercises and Problem Sets
Index
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