Abstract
Industrial economics is the study of competitive and monopoly conditions as they may affect market outcomes. An assessment of the field now is timely. For a century, it has been developing a variety of concepts, research methods, and estimates of functional relationships. Recently ‘new’ models of increasing rigor have been offered. The field continues to be rich in alternative concepts and methods.
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I am grateful to William J. Adams, Mark Bagnoli, Joe S. Bain, William J. Baumol, Donald J. Dewey, John Heywood, Henry de Jong, Bart Lipman, and Takeo Nakao for discussions of the various ideas in this paper. I am also indebted to seminar participants at the Universities of Massachusetts, Montreal and Michigan, Michigan State University, Doshisha University and the University of Chicago.
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Shepherd, W.G. (1986). On the Core Concepts of Industrial Economics. In: de Jong, H.W., Shepherd, W.G. (eds) Mainstreams in Industrial Organization. Studies in Industrial Organization, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0493-9_2
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