TY - BOOK AU - Pepall,Lynne AU - Richards,Daniel Jay AU - Norman,George TI - Industrial organization: contemporary theory & practice SN - 0324261306 (pkg.) U1 - 658.1 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Mason, OH PB - Thomson/South-Western KW - Industrial organization N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Industrial Organization: What, How, and Why -- Basic Microeconomics -- Market Structure and Market Power -- Technology and Cost -- Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Linear Pricing -- Price Discrimination and Monopoly: Nonlinear Pricing -- Product Variety and Quality Under Monopoly -- Commodity Bundling and Tie-In Sales -- Static Games and Cournot Competition -- Oligopolistic Price Competition -- Dynamic Games and First and Second Movers -- Entry Deterrence and Predation -- Predatory Conduct: More Recent Developments -- Price Fixing, Repeated Games, and Antitrust Policy -- Horizontal Mergers -- Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers -- Vertical Price Restraints -- Non-Price Vertical Restraints -- Advertising, Market Power, and Information -- Research and Development -- Patents and Patent Policy -- Network Issues -- Auctions: Basic Theory and Applications -- Strategic Commitments and International Trade N2 - Pepall's Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Empirical Applications, 5th Edition offers an accessible text in which topics are organized in a manner that motivates and facilitates progression from one chapter to the next. It serves as a complete, but concise, introduction to modern industrial economics ER -