TY - BOOK AU - Phlips Louis AU - Phlips,Louis TI - Applied industrial economics SN - 0521620546 (hardback) U1 - 338.5 23 PY - 1998/// CY - Cambridge, U.K., New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Industrial organization (Economic theory) N1 - Table of CONTENTS Introduction 1 I: MARKET STRUCTURE 31 1. Game Theory and Industry Studies 33 2. Game Theoretic Models of Market Concentration 52 3. Expanding Markets 62 4. Declining Markets 81 5. Empirical Evidence 98 II: INDUSTRIAL PRICING AND PRICING SCHEMES 121 6. Intertemporal Pricing Schemes 123 7. Spatial Pricing Schemes 152 8. Best-Price Policies 174 9. Vertical Pricing Schemes 188 10. Price Discrimination in a common Market 196 11. Tacit Collusion(1) 232 12. Tacit Collusion (2) 249 III: COMPETITION POLICY 267 13. Collusion and Predation 269 14. Vertical Restraints 284 15. Franchising Agreements 295 16. Joint R&D Ventures 318 IV: MERGERS AND MERGER CONTROL 325 17. Unprofitable exogenous Mergers 327 18. Profitable Horizontal Mergers and Welfare 340 19. Using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index 368 20. Cournot and Merger Control 375 21. Vertical Mergers 382 22. Enforcement of the US Merger Guidelines 393 23. Enforcement of the European Merger Regulation 413 Index 436 Includes bibliographical references and index UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam028/97025537.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam021/97025537.html ER -