Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction and overview
- 2 Structure–Conduct–Performance
- 3 Industry Models of Market Power
- 4 Differentiated-Product Structural Models
- 5 Strategic Reasons for a Dynamic Estimation Model
- 6 Dynamic Games Involving Economic Fundamentals
- 7 Estimation of Dynamic Games Involving Economic Fundamentals
- 8 Estimation of Market Power Using a Linear-Quadratic Model
- 9 Estimating Strategies: Theory
- 10 Estimating Strategies: Case Studies
- Statistical Appendix
- Bibliography
- Answers
- Index
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction and overview
- 2 Structure–Conduct–Performance
- 3 Industry Models of Market Power
- 4 Differentiated-Product Structural Models
- 5 Strategic Reasons for a Dynamic Estimation Model
- 6 Dynamic Games Involving Economic Fundamentals
- 7 Estimation of Dynamic Games Involving Economic Fundamentals
- 8 Estimation of Market Power Using a Linear-Quadratic Model
- 9 Estimating Strategies: Theory
- 10 Estimating Strategies: Case Studies
- Statistical Appendix
- Bibliography
- Answers
- Index
Summary
The purpose of this book is to show how to estimate a variety of traditional and new empirical industrial organization models of market power: the ability to raise price above marginal cost. We review the literature and methods to date, and focus on our work, particularly on dynamic models and estimating firms' strategies.
The book is appropriate for graduate students and researchers who have at least a basic understanding of theoretical industrial organization and standard econometric techniques. The chapters on dynamic models require a basic knowledge of dynamic optimization. A technical appendix at the end of the book reviews basic econometric techniques and covers in detail information-theoretic techniques, which we use in the last two chapters of the book.
We believe that it is crucial that economists be able to estimate and explain market power and determine firms' strategies. Economic theory alone cannot tell us how much market power firms exercise or which strategies they use. Thus, empirical work is critical if we are to understand how markets function. This work is also of importance for many policy purposes such as writing and enforcing antitrust and merger laws, regulating markets, facilitating entry, encouraging or discouraging product differentiation or advertising, or predicting the effects of taxes and other policies.
We are grateful to Scott Parris, the world's most patient editor; Dennis Carlton for permission to use the material in Chapter 2; four anonymous referees for many useful suggestions; Hugo Salgado for thoughtful advice; Alastair Hall for reviewing the Statistical Appendix; Glenn Woroch for comments on an early version; and our many colleagues who helped with much of the underlying research.
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- Estimating Market Power and Strategies , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007