Experiments in Industrial Organization (Classic Reprint)

Experiments in Industrial Organization (Classic Reprint)
Author: Edward Cadbury
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781331896524

Excerpt from Experiments in Industrial Organization The problem of the organization of the labour force within their works and factories is one which business men are only beginning seriously to consider. The pressure of commercial competition forces them to pay close and constant attention to the market; and they are also compelled to give a careful study to their machinery and other plant. But their labour they are usually content to take very much as it comes; they follow the customary practice in the matters of engaging, controlling, and remunerating their work-people, and give the whole subject not one quarter of the attention they devote to their customers or their technical processes. And then, from time to time, labour gives trouble, and brings production to a stop, and business men naturally feel hurt. Are they not working hard, they are inclined to ask, at what, after all, is their primary business? Unless they can find customers, their work-people will lose their employment, even such as it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

New Perspectives on Industrial Organization

New Perspectives on Industrial Organization
Author: Victor J. Tremblay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2012-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461432413

This book covers the main topics that students need to learn in a course on Industrial Organization. It reviews the classic models and important empirical evidence related to the field. However, it will differ from prior textbooks in two ways. First, this book incorporates contributions from behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, providing the reader with a richer understanding of consumer preferences and the motivation for many of the business practices we see today. The book discusses how firms exploit consumers who are prone to making mistakes and who suffer from cognitive dissonance, attention lapses, and bounded rationality, for example and will help explain why firms invest in persuasive advertising, offer 30-day free trials, offer money-back guarantees, and engage in other observed phenomena that cannot be explained by the traditional approaches to industrial organization. A second difference is that this book achieves a balance between textbooks that emphasize formal modeling and those that emphasize the history of the field, empirical evidence, case studies, and policy analysis. This text puts more emphasis on the micro-foundations (i.e., consumer and producer theory), classic game theoretic models, and recent contributions from behavioral economics that are pertinent to industrial organization. Each topic will begin with a discussion of relevant theory and models and will also include a discussion of concrete examples, empirical evidence, and evidence from case studies. This will provide students with a deeper understanding of firm and consumer behavior, of the factors that influence market structure and economic performance, and of policy issues involving imperfectly competitive markets. The book is intended to be a textbook for graduate students, MBAs and upper-level undergraduates and will use examples, graphical analysis, algebra, and simple calculus to explain important ideas and theories in industrial organization.

Handbook of Experimental Economics Results

Handbook of Experimental Economics Results
Author: Charles R. Plott
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1175
Release: 2008-08-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0444826424

While the field of economics makes sharp distinctions and produces precise theory, the work of experimental economics sometimes appears blurred and may produce uncertain results. The contributors to this volume have provided brief notes describing specific experimental results.

Industrial Organization in Context

Industrial Organization in Context
Author: Stephen Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1021
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199291195

Industrial Organization in Context examines the economics of markets, industries and their participants and public policy towards these entities. It takes an international approach and incorporates discussion of experimental tests of economic models.

Experimental Economics

Experimental Economics
Author: Nicholas Bardsley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691124795

The authors explore the history of experiments in economics, provide examples of different types of experiments and show that the growing use of experimental methods is transforming economics into an empirical science. They explain that progress is being held back and debate on how to overcome these limitations.

Experimental Methods

Experimental Methods
Author: Daniel Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1994-01-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521456821

This primer is the first hands-on guide to the physical aspects of conducting experiments in economics.

Applied Industrial Organization

Applied Industrial Organization
Author: Karl Aiginger
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1994-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780792330509

Applied Industrial Organization offers a perspective on the richness of empirical industrial organization studies. Some papers derive empirical implications from theoretical models, but other papers start from empirical evidence and construct a theory. Three major topics are explored: the role of innovation, the evolution of market structure and firms, and the determinations of performance. As the central force of market economies, innovation is the essence of competition and results in changes to market structures. Other forces driving the evolution of markets and firms are also analyzed. Finally, the determinants of profitability are investigated. In particular, characteristics such as price flexibility, successful lenders and monopoly regulation are examined. Contributors include F.M. Scherer, Paul Geroski, John Hey, David Audretsch, Manfred Neumann, among others.