Markets, corporate behaviour and the state

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Conceptual and Methodological Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Determinants of Market Structure: Design for Research

      • Richard E. Caves

      Pages 3-18

   3. International Comparisons in The Study of Industrial Organization

      • William James Adams

      Pages 19-32

   4. Power and Competition

      • Helmut Arndt

      Pages 33-52

3. Concentration, Mergers and Performance in the E.E.C.

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Concentration, Size and Performance of European Firms

      • Alex P. Jacquemin, Louis Phlips

      Pages 55-77

   3. Large and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Europe and America

      • S. J. Prais, Caroline Reid

      Pages 78-94

   4. Theory and Evidence Concerning Mergers: An International Comparison

      • Henk W. de Jong

      Pages 95-123

   5. The Causes and Effects of Mergers

      • Kenneth D. George, Aubrey Silberston

      Pages 124-142

   6. Static and Dynamic Methods for Analysing Industrial Concentration: The Italian Case

      • Remo Linda

      Pages 143-166

4. Big Corporations and Market Structures in the U.S.

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. The Elements and Evolution of Market Structure

      • William G. Shepherd

      Pages 169-212

   3. Private Planning and Social Efficiency

      • Walter Adams, Joel B. Dirlam

      Pages 213-236

5. The Impact of the Multinatonal Corporation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. Systemic Instability and the Global Corporation at Home: The Role of Power in Economic Analysis

      • Ronald E. Muller

      Pages 239-263

   3. Industrial Policy and the Structural Impact of Multinational Firms: An Analytical View

      • Gilles Y. Bertin

      Pages 264-279

   4. Theoretical Elements for an Introduction to Petroleum Economics

      • Jean Marie Chevalier

      Pages 280-300

6. Some Policy Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301

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   2. Concerted Action as an Aspect of Oligopolistic Behaviour and Its Treatment in Competition Policy

      • Ernst Heusz

      Pages 303-315

This book originated at a meeting of American and European specialists in in­ dustrial organization, at the Instituut voor Bedrijfskunde, Nijenrode (The Netherlands) in August, 1974. The conference endeavored to bring together re­ searchers in a field where, paradoxically, the underlying phenomena studied are increasingly coordinated and internationalized, yet the observers remain pre­ dominantly isolated. Only rarely do they resort to comparisons between coun­ tries, and still less frequently to an analysis from a transnational outlook. As the contributions to this collection demonstrate, it has become clearer and clearer that -whether or not as a result of a random process, or of technological conditions, or of deliberate enterprise strategy - the determinants of market structures and their changes as time passes, have created fundamentally similar effects in different countries, resulting in industrial structures of the same kind. Thus, the largest firms and plants are found in the same sectors, and the most concentrated industries are more or less the same from one country to the other. The studies of Prais, Reid, Jacquemin & Phlips and Linda likewise show that a broad trend toward concentration has been manifest.

• Distribution
• economics
• efficiency
• merger
• multinational corporation
• organization
• statistics

• University of Louvain, Belgium

  A. P. Jacquemin

• Instituut voor Bedrijfskunde, Nijenrode, The Netherlands

  H. W. Jong

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