Mainstreams in Industrial Organization: Book I. Theory and International Aspects. Book II. Policies: Antitrust, Deregulation and Industrial

ISBN-13: 9789401704953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 465 str.

H. W. De Jong; William G. Shepherd

Opis

The present two volumes contain the essays and part of the discussions as presented at the conference on Mainstreams in Industrial Organiza- tion, held at the University of Amsterdam, 21-23 August 1985. The thema was chosen because the field of studies commonly designated "industrial organization" in the Anglo-Saxon countries, or "market theory" in Continental Europe, has experienced important alterations during the past decade. Partly this reflects changing theoretical views inside the field, in which shifts in the core concepts have occurred and different emphasis is laid on time-honoured views and results. Partly, critical views have been voiced from outside the field. As in all open scientific debate, they have to be weighed and, if necessary, taken into account. Partly also, diver- gent developments in thinking between the Anglo-Saxon, European and Japanese areas need to be considered, because both the problems and the ways of approaching them still differ. The variety of views, theori~s and results is testimony to the vitality of this field of economics; variety is generated by the creative endeavours, from which the chaff is being beaten out by critical discussions. That is especially true for the concept of competition itself, which industrial organization economists are debating intensively.

Spis treści

I. Theory.- 1. On the Current State of Knowledge in Industrial Organization.- 2. On the Core Concepts of Industrial Economics.- 3. European Industrial Organization: Entrepreneurial Economics in an Organizational Setting.- 4. Mainstreams in Industrial Organization: Challenges and Tasks.- 5. On the Currents in Mainstream Industrial Organization.- II. International Aspects.- 6. International Competition, Productivity Change and the Organization of Production.- 7. Industrial Organization in an International Framework.- 8. Exporting Behaviour and Market Structure: Evidence from the United States.- III. Antitrust Policy.- 9. United States’ Antitrust: At the Crossroads.- 10. The Treatment of Dominant Forms in U.K. Competition Legislation.- 11. The Treatment of Dominance in German Antitrust Policy.- 12. Competition Policies and Measures of Dominant Power.- 13. Lessons of Economics for Antitrust: Problems of Antitrust for Economists.- IV. Deregulation.- 14. What Do We Understand about the Economics of Regulation? The Effects of U.S. Transport Deregulation.- 15. Deregulation of European Air Transport.- V. Industrial Policy.- 16. Industrial Policy in Theory and Reality.- 17. Public Support of Innovative Activity; Lessons from U.S. Industrial Policy.- 18. Industrial Policy and Innovation in Europe.