Recent Developments in the Theory of Industrial Organization

✍ Scribed by Alfredo Del Monte (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

New forms of organisation and market behaviour are emerging to replace and reshape older forms. This has produced great uncertainty in industrial organization theory. The purpose of this volume is to review and present some of the new approaches developed in industrial organization. The material is organised into four sections: recent approaches to Industrial Organisation, the behaviour of individual firms and the characteristics of industrial systems as a whole, new theories of the firm and market structure and technical progress and market structure - some special issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Recent Developments in Industrial Organization....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Implementing Game-Theoretic Models in Industrial Economics: Levels of Attack....Pages 19-33
Performances, Interactions and Evolution in the Theory of Industrial Organization....Pages 34-57
Experiments in Industrial Organization....Pages 58-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
On Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomic Analysis....Pages 79-113
Flexibility and Industrial Organization Theory....Pages 114-147
Monopoly Capitalism Revisited....Pages 148-161
Industrial Economics in Italy....Pages 162-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Collaborative Strategies of Firms: Theory and Evidence....Pages 201-231
The Multinational Firm and the Theory of Industrial Organization....Pages 232-251
The Behaviour of Risk-Averse Firms in a Duopolistic Market....Pages 252-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Technological Change and Market Structure: The Diffusion Dimension....Pages 267-277
Inventive Activity and Risk Aversion....Pages 278-292
Market Structure, Firm Size and Innovation in Italy: An Integrated Approach to Testing Schumpeter....Pages 293-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-324

✦ Subjects

Labor Economics;Organization;Industries