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Problems -- Suggested Readings -- Appendix 9A -- An Example of Price Discrimination: Agricultural Marketing Orders -- Example 9.1 -- Coupons -- Example 9.2 -- Thank You, Doctor -- Example 9.3 -- Halting Drug Sales from Canada -- Example 9.4 -- Vertical Integration as a Means of Price Discrimination: Alcoa Shows Its True Metal -- Example 9.5 -- A Discriminating Labor Union -- Example 9.6 -- Does Competition Always Lower Price?
This text offers modern coverage of modern industrial organizations, including strategic behaviour and game theory. It uses a unified structure to analyse theories and empirical evidence about the organization of firms and indutries.
A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power. The U.S. economy is growing less competitive. Large businesses increasingly profit by taking advantage of their customers and suppliers. These firms can also use sophisticated pricing algorithms and customer data to secure substantial and persistent advantages over smaller players. In our new Gilded Age, the likes of Google and Amazon fill the roles of Standard Oil and U.S. Steel. Jonathan Baker shows how business practices harming competition manage to go unchecked. The law has fallen behind technology, but that is not the only problem. Inspired by Rober...
The past thirty years have witnessed a transformation of government economic intervention in broad segments of industry throughout the world. Many industries historically subject to economic price and entry controls have been largely deregulated, including natural gas, trucking, airlines, and commercial banking. However, recent concerns about market power in restructured electricity markets, airline industry instability amid chronic financial stress, and the challenges created by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which allowed commercial banks to participate in investment banking, have led to calls for renewed market intervention. Economic Regulation and Its Reform collects research by a...
Over the last three decades, the field of antitrust law has grown increasingly prominent, and more than one hundred countries have enacted competition law statutes. As competition law expands to jurisdictions with very different economic, social, cultural, and institutional backgrounds, the debates over its usefulness have similarly evolved. This book, the first in a new series on global competition law, critically assesses the importance of competition law, its development and modern practice, and the global limits that have emerged. This volume will be a key resource to both scholars and practitioners interested in antitrust, competition law, economics, business strategy, and administrative sciences.