This upper-level
undergraduate text provides an introduction to industrial organization theory along with
applications and nontechnical analyses of the legal system and antitrust laws. Using the
modern approach but without emphasizing the mathematical generality inherent in many of
the arguments, it bridges the gap between existing nontheoretical texts written for
undergraduates and highly technical texts written for graduate students. The book can also
be used in masters' programs, and advanced graduate students will find it a convenient
guide to modern industrial organization.
The treatment is rigorous and comprehensive. A wide range of models of all widely used
market structures, strategic marketing devices, compatibility and standards, advertising,
R&D, as well as more traditional topics are considered in versions much simplified
from the originals but that retain the basic intuition.
Shy first defines the issues that industrial organization addresses and then develops the
tools needed to attack the basic questions. He begins with perfect competition and then
considers imperfectly competitive market structures including a wide variety of
monopolies, and all forms of quantity and price competitions. The last chapter provides a
helpful feature for students by showing how various theories may be related to particular
industries but not to others.
Topics include: the basics needed to understand modern industrial organization; market
structure (monopoly, homogenous products, differentiated products); mergers and entry;
research and development; economics of compatibility and standards; advertising; quality
and durability; pricing tactics; marketing tactics; management, compensation, and
information; price dispersion and search theory; and special industries.
"This book presents the
main ideas of modern industrial organization, many of which are explained without using
calculus. Only the ability to follow logical arguments is needed for these sections. Oz
Shy also provides a very nice introduction to topics which are typically not covered in
other texts, namely the basic results about compatibility and the choice of standards as
well as a concise analysis of specific industries." Jacques Thisse, Professor of
Economics at the Sorbonne and CERAS, Paris
466 pages
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