Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization Essays in Honor of Leon

Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization brings together leading scholars who present state-of-the-art research in the spirit of the structure-conduct-performance paradigm embodied in the work of Leonard W. Weiss. The individual chapters are generally

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Studies in Industrial Organization Volume 16

Series Editors: H. W. de Jong, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands W. G. Shepherd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A.

Advisory Board: W. Adams, Michigan State University, East Lansing (Mich.), U.S.A. R. E. Caves, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.), U.S.A. K. D. George, University College of Swansea, Singleton Park, U.K. E. Heusz, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany A. P. Jacquemjn, University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, and Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium E. Kantzenbach, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany H. W. Lambers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands R. Prodi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, and Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale, Bologna, Italy F. M. Scherer, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.), U.S.A.

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization Essays in Honor of Leonard W. Weiss

Edited by

David B. Audretsch and John J. Siegfried

Springer Science+Business Media, L L C

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eap1r1cal studies m industrial organization : essays 1n honor of Leonard W. Weiss / edited by David B. Audretsch, John J. S i e g f r i e d , p. ca. — (Studies In Industrial organization ; v. 16) Includes Index. ISBN 978-94-010-5241-2 1. Industrial organization (Economic theory) I. Audretsch, David B. I I . S i e g f r i e d , John J. I I I . Weiss, Leonard W. IV. Series. HD2326.E46 1992 338.6—dc20 92-14813

ISBN 978-94-010-5241-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2795-0

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Table of contents

Preface Acknowledgements Chapter One Leonard Weiss' Contributions to Research Industrial Organization

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FREDERIC M. SCHERER

Chapter Two

Costs, Demand, and Imperfect Competition as Determinants of Plant-Level Output Prices

Chapter Three

The Functional Relationship Between Prices and Market Concentration: The Case of the Banking Industry

Chapter Four

The Effectiveness and Stability of Highway BidRigging

Chapter Five

Price Changes and Mergers in U.S. Manufacturing, 1985-1986

Chapter Six

Price Challges from 1958 to 1982

Chapter Seven

Problems in the Conceptualization of Markets for the Analysis of Competitive Processes

TIMOTIIY DUNNE and MARK J. ROBERTS

TIMOTIIY H. HANNAN

LANCE E. BRANNMAN andJ. DOUGLASS KLEIN

JOHN F. STEWART and SANG-KWON KIM CHRISTINA M. L. KELTON

PAUL AUERBACH, MERLIN STONE AND JACK CAMPBELL

Chapter Eight

Predatory Pricing: Where Do We Stand?

Chapter Nine

Antitrust and the Political Process

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