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Foreword | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Applications of Core Theory to Market Exchange | p. 3 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Consumer Surplus and Transferable Utility | p. 4 |
Some Simple Trading Situations | p. 11 |
m Owners and n Nonowners | p. 19 |
The Basic Core Constraints | p. 28 |
Market Efficiency and Honest Brokers | p. 31 |
Multiunit Trade | p. 37 |
Increasing Returns and Public Goods from the Viewpoint of the Core | p. 48 |
A Brief Historical Note | p. 57 |
Consumer Surplus | p. 62 |
Further Applications of Core Theory to Market Exchange | p. 68 |
Introduction | p. 68 |
Balanced Collections of Coalitions | p. 70 |
Empty Cores | p. 78 |
The Feasibility of Trade | p. 88 |
Group Rationality with Multiunit Trade | p. 94 |
Competition and Numbers | p. 104 |
The Number of Traders and the Emptiness of the Core | p. 108 |
Conclusions | p. 117 |
Applications of the Core to Oligopoly | p. 119 |
Introduction | p. 119 |
Properties of the Core under Constant Returns | p. 124 |
The Cournot-Nash Theory of Duopoly for Finite Horizons | p. 131 |
The Cournot-Nash Theory of Duopoly for Infinite Horizons | p. 142 |
Theories of Expectations for N Competing Firms | p. 146 |
Introduction | p. 146 |
Expectation Models with Quantity as the Policy Variable | p. 149 |
Expectation Models for Price as the Policy Variable | p. 164 |
Summary | p. 172 |
Competition or Collusion? | p. 175 |
Introduction | p. 175 |
The Nature of Competition and Collusion | p. 176 |
Equilibrium with Product Variety Illustrated for Spatial Competition | p. 184 |
The Costs of Maintaining Collusion | p. 192 |
Sharing the Collusive Return | p. 206 |
The Monopoly and Cournot-Nash Equilibria under Dynamic Conditions | p. 218 |
Introduction | p. 218 |
Dynamic Demand Relations | p. 221 |
Some Fundamentals on Optimal Policies | p. 226 |
The Solvability of Certain Linear Equations | p. 242 |
Properties of the Cooperative and Noncooperative Dynamic Equilibria | p. 250 |
Conclusions | p. 272 |
Estimates of Demand, Price Policy, and the Ratio of Price to Marginal Cost by Brand for Selected Consumer Goods | p. 274 |
Introduction | p. 274 |
Estimates of the Demand Relation between Market Share and Prices | p. 283 |
Estimates of the Relations among Competing Prices | p. 294 |
Competition in a New Product | p. 299 |
Conclusions | p. 305 |
Some Determinants of the Returns to Manufacturing Industries | p. 312 |
Introduction | p. 312 |
Description of the Data and Some Simple Summary Statistics | p. 316 |
Multiple Regression Analysis of the Census Data | p. 324 |
An Analysis of Employment Turnover in Selected Manufacturing Industries | p. 339 |
A Brief Survey of Findings by Other Investigators | p. 352 |
Conclusions | p. 356 |
Estimation of Payrolls, Annual Earnings, and Employment of Nonproduction Workers | p. 357 |
Description of the Samples | p. 359 |
The Two-Digit Industry Effects | p. 361 |
The Relative Size Distribution of Firms | p. 363 |
References | p. 367 |
Name Index | p. 371 |
Subject Index | p. 372 |
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