This handbook serves as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for industrial organization (or industrial economics), the broad field within microeconomics that focuses on business behavior and its implications both for market structures and processes, and for public policies towards them. Comprehensive and up-to-date surveys are provided of recent developments and the state of knowledge in the major areas of research in this field as of the latter part of the 1980's, written at a level suitable for use by non-specialist economists and students on advanced graduate courses. Each chapter can be read independently, although they are organized into sections.
"Editors Richard Schmalensee and Robert Willig have assembled an impressive collection of essays evaluating most of the new directions of industrial economics. --
Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics"These two Handbooks constitute a valuable introduction and summary of most of the new debate and many of the new results."
..."There is no doubt that these Handbooks are essential sources for academics working in the general area of industrial organization and microeconomic theory. ..." --
Economics of Planning... "... written at a level suitable for use by non-specialist economists and students in advanced graduate courses. Each chapter can be read independently, though they are organized into sections." --
Revista Internazionale di Economia dei Trasporti ... a formidable opus which will, for the time to come, be a major source of reference for students, teachers, and researchers in industrial organization."
"...The Handbook is a most laudable achievement which must be welcomed by all those economists interested in Industrial Organization. --
Journal of Economics..."Each chapter is written by a major player in the field, which assures that the reader is getting an expert's eyeview." --
Brookings Papers: Microeconomics..."This Handbook does a good job of bringing this research together into an accessible and comprehensive set of surveys of the important areas. ..."
"... the Handbook of Industrial Organization is an impressive and valuable compilation of work. The nature of modern IO, reflected in the breadth of coverage and quality of these two volumes, suggests that it will be widely used."
-- The Economic Record
..."crammed with generally well written surveys of what is new and interesting in industrial organization." -- International Journal of Industrial Organization
.....the serious industrial organization economist would be well advised not to leave home without it (i.e. the Handbook). -- International Journal of Industrial Organization
