The dissertation of work of rosse, bresnahan and suslow each involved collection of data from industry sources in the public domain, with no reliance on government sources for endogenous variables. Volume 2 of the handbook examines current human resource practices and explores the measurement and testing of individual attributes within an organization. Bibliography estimating market power and strategies. He has been concerned with econometric measurement of market power and testing of models of imperfect competition. Estimating market power and strategies by jeffrey m. Handbook of industrial organization vol 2, pages 951. Industrial organization1, industrial economics, oligopoly, imperfect competition. Handbook of industrial organization vol 2, pages 9511555. Publications in this area include a chapter in the handbook of industrial organization. The number of firms in a market is a primary determinant of market.
Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Volume iii of the handbook of industrial organization. Handbook of industrial organization vol 1, pages 3947l. I will make required handbook chapters available through sakai or other convenient. Empirical studies of industries with market power econpapers. The course covers discrete choice and static demand estimation, consumer search, and static models of entry and market structure. Industrial organization economists have frequently felt that their field was datastarved, or at least starved of appropriate data. Reflections on the handbook of industrial organization, by franklin m. All these are well known labels to address one of the oldest problems in economics, namely how prices arise in the market when there are few competitors. Williamson 2005 calls it the paradigm problem for selection from the handbook of organizational economics book. Empirical methods for industries with market power, chapter 17 in handbook of industrial organization, volume ii, richard schmalensee and robert willig, eds. The books are available for purchase or at the library. Chapter 17 empirical studies of industries with market.
Handbook of industrial organization book, 1989 worldcat. Methods and applications cambridge university press, new york, may 2005 jean tirole, the theory of industrial organization, the mit press, 1988 school of economics academic year 201415 term 1. Industrial organization adds realworld complications to the perfectly competitive model, complications such as transaction costs, limited information, and barriers to entry of new firms. Bresnahan, tim empirical studies with market power. Franco malerba, richard nelson, luigi orsenigo and sidney winter, competition and industrial policies in a history friendly model of the evolution of the computer industry, international journal of industrial organization, 19, 5, 635, 2001. A standard undergraduate industrial organization textbook. Industrial organization hausman, jerry, valuation of new goods under perfect and imperfect competition, in bresnahan and gordon eds. Empirical studies of industries with market power, handbook of industrial organization, in. Background bresnahan, t im empirical studies with market power, handbook of industrial organization, vol. Reiss nber and stanford university do entry conditions vary across markets.
The bbva foundation recognizes bresnahan, pakes and porter. Handbook of industrial organization vol 2, pages 9511555 1989. Handbook of industrial organization, volume 3 this volume is the third in the handbook of industrial organization series hereafter, the hio. This handbook serves as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for industrial organization or industrial economics, the broad field within microeconomics that focuses on business behavior and its implications both for market structures and processes, and for public policies towards them. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Examples from industrial organization, handbook of econometrics, volume 6a. The aim of the course is to give a solid grounding in the modern empirical tools that are useful in understanding the structure of markets, and the strategic behavior of firms and their consumers. Estimating the elasticity of demand facing a single firm. Economics 890 empirical industrial organization and applied. Handbook of industrial organization, vol 2 econpapers. This book presents, compares, and develops various techniques for estimating market power the ability to set price profitably above marginal cost and strategies the gametheoretic plans used by firms to compete with rivals. Ch 18 empirical studies of innovation and market structure. Bresnahan and gordon eds, the economics of new goods, studies in income and wealth.
Tirole, jean, the theory of industrial organization, mit press, 1988. Eco 2901 industrial organization ii aguirregabiria. In economics, industrial organization or industrial economy is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of and, therefore, the boundaries between firms and markets. The aim to give a solid grounding in the modern empirical tools that have proved useful in understanding the structure of markets, and the strategic behavior of rms and their consumers. In the last few years, he has studied subprime lending, health insurance, the allocation of radio spectrum, and the economics of internet. Handbook of industrial organization, volumes i and ii, northholland. Empirical studies of industries with market power, handbook of industrial. A progress report, journal of economic perspectives, 242, 145162 2010. Entry and competition in concentrated markets, journal of political economy, 1991, 995, 9771009. Jonathan levin stanford graduate school of business. Jonathan levin is an applied economist whose research is in the field of industrial organization. Handbook of industrial organization handbooks in economics 10. Industrial organization and prices ii the course provides a graduatelevel introduction to industrial organization io. Although not exclusively, the course will focus mostly on the application of econometric.
Aug 15, 2017 bresnahan, timothy and reiss, peter c. This is vol 3 of the handbook of industrial organization series hio. Industrial organization and regulation ii jeanfran. Adoption of new information and communications technologies in the workplace today, nber chapters, in. Theoretical industrial organization had been revolutionized by game theory by the mid1980s, and the renaissance in empirical work alluded to by bresnahan and schmalensee 1987 had only just. Handbook of industrial organization, volumes 1 and 2 northholland, 1989. Empirical studies of industries with market power in. My spring 2020 industrial organization reading list and. This is volume 3 of the handbook of industrial organization series hio. Recent developments in empirical industrial organization. Bresnahan s research interests lie in industrial organization area. He is best known for his work on contracting relationships and on the design of market rules and institutions. Handbook of industrial organization, volume 3 1st edition. Chapter 17 empirical studies of industries with market power.
This is a phdlevel course for empirical industrial organization. Since the first volumes published, the field of industrial organization has continued to evolve and this volume fills the gaps. Graduate empirical industrial organisation 2015 john asker february 16, 2015 1 overview this is a course in the graduate industrial organization sequence. Technological competition and the structure of the. Competition and collusion in the american automobile industry. Read the latest chapters of handbook of industrial organization at sciencedirect. It is designed to provide a broad introduction to topics and industries that current researchers are studying as well as to expose students to a wide variety of techniques. Handbook of industrial organization, volume 2 1st edition. Handbook of industrial organization, volume 2 1st edition elsevier. Handbook of industrial organization, richard schmalensee. Eco 2901 industrial organization ii university of toronto. The text that analyzes many game theoretic models in industrial organization. Outcomes, handbook of econometrics, volume 6, chapter 63. Handbook of econometrics, in the first section below, are probably the closest thing to a textbook for the material i will cover.
Technological competition and the structure of the computer. Examples introductiontoempiricalindustrial organization. Chapter 17 in handbook of industrial organization, 1989, vol. Parts 2 and 3 of the handbook of industrial organization are re. This handbook serves as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for industrial organization or industrial economics, the broad field within microeconomics that focuses on business behavior and its implications both for market structures and processes, and for. Addressing a wide range of issues, this volume provides information on job analysis and design, personnel assessment, recruitment, training, procedures for decision making, employee. Innovation policy and the economy, volume 17, pages 95124, national bureau of economic research, inc.
This course covers various econometric methods used in industrial organization that is often referred to as the structural estimation approach. Porter 1991 argued that the handbook coverage implied a pressing need for more evidence. Empirical studies of industries with market power t. Economics 890 empirical industrial organization and. Methodological foundations for international food and agricultural market research. This course provides a graduatelevel introduction to industrial organization io, with a focus on empirical methods and applications. Finance and industrial organization gordon phillips tuck school of business dartmouth college april 25, 2017 summary the primary topics below concern the interaction between the firms real decisions and its financial decisions in different equilibrium industrial organization settings. The handbook of behavioral industrial organization integrates behavioral economics into industrial organization.
Handbook of industrial organization 1st edition isbn. Ch 00 preface to the handbook of industrial organization, volume 3 mark armstrong and robert porter ch 01 technological determinants of firm and industry structure, pp 359 john c. Chapters cover concepts such as relative thinking, salience, shrouded attributes, cognitive dissonance, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, overconfidence, status quo bias, social cooperation and identity. Panzar ch 02 the theory of the firm, pp 613 bengt holmstrom and jean tirole ch 03 transaction cost economics, pp 5182 oliver williamson. Introduction vertical integration occupies a central role in organizational economics.