Industrial organization
Industrial organization is the field of economics that studies the
behavior of firms and the structure of markets when markets fail to be perfectly competitive. Theoretical analysis in the field is heavily
based on game theory.
The common market structures studied in this field are the
following:
References
A standard graduate textbook in the field is "The Theory of Industrial Organization" by Jean Tirole (The MIT Press, 1988).
This book requires extensive knowledge of calculus as well as game theory.
Anyone new to the field of economics should begin with a standard undergraduate text "Industrial Organization: Theory and
Application" by Oz Shy (The MIT Press, 1995).
See also Important publications in industrial organization.
-This article has been brought to you by BambooWeb and Wikipedia-
