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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. Th

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APPLIED INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Towards A Theory Based Empirical Industrial Organization

Edited by

KARL AIGINGER and JORG FINSINGER University of Linz, Institute of Economic Research, Vienna, Austria University of Vienna, Business Economics Institute, Vienna, Austria

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA B.V.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Applted tndustrtal organtzatton : towards a theory based emptrtcal tndustrtal organtzatton / edtted by Karl Atgtnger and Jorg Ftnstnger. p. CII. ISBN 978-90-481-4452-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-6395-0

ISBN 978-94-017-6395-0 (eBook)

1. Industrtal organtzatton (Econolltc theory> II. Ftnstnger. Jorg. HD2326.A66 1994 338.6--dc20

1. Atgtnger. Karl.

94-29539

ISBN 978-90-481-4452-5

Printed on acid-free paper

All Rights Reserved © 1994 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1994 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1994 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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I. THE ROLE OF INNOVATION

FREDERIC M. SCHERER / Lagging Productivity Growth: Measurement, Technology and Shock Effects PAUL A. GEROSKI AND STEVE MACHIN / Innovation, Profitability and Growth over the Business Cycle GERNOT HUTSCHENREITER AND HANNES LEO / Empirical Evidence on Schumpeterian Hypotheses in Austria JOHN D. HEY / New Experiments in Industrial Organisation

15 35 51 63

II. THE EVOLUTION OF MARKETS AND FIRMS DAVID B. AUDRETSCH AND TALAT MAHMOOD / Entry, Growth, and Survival: The New Learning on Firm Selection and Industry Evolution MATTHIAS BLONSKI / Innovation and Evolution as a Dynamic Game with Rational Behavior C. CHRISTIAN VON WEIZSACKER / The Division of Labour and Market Structure JOSEF WINDSPERGER / The Evolution of the Vertically Integrated Firm: A Transaction Cost Analysis

85 95 107 111

m. DETERMINANTS OF PERFORMANCE JONATHAN HASKEL / Why Did UK Manufacturing Profitability Rise over the 1980s? KARL AIGINGER / Collusion, Concentration and Profits PETER MOOSLECHNER AND YVONNE SCHNITZER / StructurePerformance in Banking: An Application to a Typical Universal Banking System CHRISTOPH WEISS / Market Structure and Pricing Behavior in Austrian Manufacturing MANFRED NEUMANN / Portfolio Choice, Transactions Costs and Monopoly Power

133 151

167 187 205

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SIMON DOMBERGER AND DAVID HENSHER I Private and Public Sector Regulation of Competitively Tendered Contracts MICHAEL DROTTBOOM AND WOLFGANG LEININGER IOn the Scope of Indirect Regulation of Monopolies in the Presence of Large Entry Cost

219 239

K. Aiginger and J. Finsinger (eds.), Applied Industrial Organization, 1-11.

© 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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Introduction KARL AIGINGER and JORG FINS INGER

The Status of Industrial Organization and the Aim of this Book Industria