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 ...industrial organization is concerned with how productive activities are brought into harmony with the demand for goods and services through some organizing mechanism..., and how variations and imperfections in the organizing mechanism affect the success achieved in satisfying an economy's wants.

-Scherer and Ross (1990)

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...industrial economics is alive and well and is the queen of applied microeconomics.

-- Oliver E. Williamson (1990)

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                        Industrial Organization (I)

¡@ I. Introduction
(A) The field
 
(B) Methodology

(C) Preview: Competition and Monopoly
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II. Market Structure

(A) Dimensions and Measures
(B) Determinants
                        
(C) Status quo
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III. The Behavior of Firms

(A) The Nature of the Firm

                                  

(B) Ownership and Control

                                 

(C) Strategic behavior of firms: a preview

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IV. Performance

(A) Allocative Efficiency, Equity and other Aspects
(B) Evidence
                 
(C) X-Efficiency
                     

V. Public Policy: an introduction

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