Contemporary Industrial Organization: A Quantitative Approach
December 2010, ©2011 PART I MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS. 1
Industrial Organization and Imperfect Competition: What, How,
and Why? 1.1 What Is Industrial Organization? 1.2 How We Analyze
Imperfect Competition. 1.3 Why: Antitrust Policy and Industrial
Organization Theory. Appendix–Excerpts from Key Antitrust
Statutes. 2 Basic Microeconomics. 2.1 Competition versus
Monopoly: The Poles of Market Performance. 2.2 Intertemporal
Considerations and Constraints on Monopoly Power. 3 Technology
and Cost Relationships. 3.1 Production Technology and Cost
Function for Single-Product Firms. 3.2 Cost Relations for
Multiproduct Firms. 3.3 Non-Cost Determinants of Market
Structure. 3.4 Empirical Application: Cost Function Estimation,
Scale and Scope Economies. 4 Market Structure and Market Power.
4.1 Measuring Market Structure. 4.2 Measuring Market power—the
Lerner Index Again. 4.3 Empirical Application: Monopoly Power:
How Bad Is It? PART II PRICE AND NONPRICE TACTIC