Online Text and Notes in Industrial Economics

Lecture notes on theory of the firm, growth of firms and industry concentration, barriers to entry, product differentiation, welfare effects of monopoly and other industrial topics. Some handwritten; most contain graphical presentation as well as algebra, some accompanied by slides. Linked to 10-week Industrial Economics course at City University, as taught in 2005.

Scroll down this page for some PDF and Word files on specific topics in theory of the firm. There are also six PowerPoint presentations from four lectures. Material covered includes: The nature of firms, Costs, Mergers and Acquisitions, Policies, Scale and scope costs, Ansoff’s classification of firm strategies, The Marris model of firm growth, The relationship between costs and firm strategy, Market Power, Oligopoly and evidence on market power, Mergers and acquisitions, and Transaction costs.

This is a collection of presentations given at various CBI (Confederation of British Industry) events made available via SlideShare. They have been authored by members of the CBI or invited speakers from HM Treasury, companies and other organisations. They cover topics such as public procurement, climate change, energy policy, pensions etc. In common with other resources available on SlideShare they are embeddable in other websites, some are downloadable and registered users can comment on the presentations.

Impressive, very large site on history of economic thought, including a long alphabetical list of historical economists with profiles and further links to original documents on the same server. You can also browse by school of thought - Pre-Classical, Anglo-American, Heterodox Themes, Classical, Continental, and Keynesian. You can examine the same material by theme: there are impressive documents in the categories of Business Cycle Theory, Empirics and Econometrics, Imperfect Competition, Economic Development, Uncertainty and Information, Game Theory and Finance Theory and includes weblinks and references. It is hosted at the graduate faculty of economics of the New School University New York

Industrial Economics is a course webpage produced by Johan Lagerhof of Royal Holloway, University of London. It includes lecture notes, seminar questions and answers on industrial economic and organisation. Includes theories of monopoly, duopoly and oligopoly; competition policy (UK and US); entry deterrence; product differentiation; mergers. Linked to Industrial Economics lectures with core texts: J Church and R Ware 'Industrial Organization' (McGraw-Hill 2000) and M Motta 'Competition Policy' (Cambridge University Press 2004).

Industrial growth and competition: course notes and slides, includes 10 sets of bullet-point lecture notes, archived in PDF on this home page for a course run in 2001 and 2003. The course covers innovation, technology, competition, price differentiation, firm size and grwoth. There is also a lengthy course notes document including text, readings and a course description, running to more than 150 pages in PDF. The page also has links to online information sources useful for student projects.

Industrial organization: a strategic approach is an online version of a text book written by Canadian economists Jeffrey Church and Roger Ware, in 2000. This intermediate level text on industrial economics covers, monopolies, oligopoly pricing, strategic behaviour, issues in antitrust economics and issues in regulatory economics. It is available as a single PDF download of over 1000 pages.

This economics lecturer provides reading material and handouts in formats such as jpg, PDF, and Excel. Also available are instructions for writing a long writing assignment. Class materials are archived from 1995 to 2001, and include problem sets and sample exams in various formats. This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site, which has most but not all of the content.

Interactive textbook for industrial economics by Kevin Hinde, contains slide shows and complete lecture notes from a course on Managerial and Industrial Economics. Chapters include "The Economics of Regulating the Market", "Collusive and Competitive Behaviour", "Dominant Firms and some implications for economic welfare ", "Traditional Oligopoly Models and Economic Welfare" and "Privatisation and Regulation in the UK".

Neoclassical Theories of Production is a detailed summary of orthodox models of the supply-side economics, covering production functions, marginal-productivity theory of distribution, profit-maximising conditions, the firm in partial and general equilibrium, imperfect competition. Presents more recent developments in the theory (e.g. constant elasticity of substitution production function, bordered Hessian matrix fort quasi-concavity, activity analysis, new institutionalism) while keeping to simple mathematical and graphic presentation.

Network Economics is an introductory text by Anna Nagurney of the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts. It includes notes and reading list on economics of networks, mostly as text and basic diagrams. Includes cost and distance optimisation problems, congestion (including Braess's Paradox) and applications of networks to economics.

Nicholas Economides' network economics home page, with links to his main papers on the subject including (most useful for teaching) his 'Economics of Networks' review article, interactive bibliography, and links to US anti-trust materials centred on the Department of Justice vs Microsoft case.

The economics of competition: a global perspective, is part of Kevin Hinde's suite of economics resources. The lecture slide shows are from a course for Business Studies students which "explores the effects of competitive and anti-competitive behaviour in Europe". Lecture topics are: Introduction to Competition and Regulation, Case Study on Regulation: Protecting Consumers, Understanding Markets and Industries, The Welfare Effects of Market Structure, Oligopoly, Barriers to Entry, Cartels, Predatory Behaviour, and Privatisation and Regulation of Public Utilities. They are available in PDF and also as PowerPoint files.