Efficiency, Market Dynamics and Industry Growth

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. Technology creation and diffusion......Page 13
3. Efficiency models of industry growth......Page 22
4. Industry growth in Cournot-Nash framework......Page 32
5. Concluding remarks......Page 39
1. Introduction......Page 42
2. Production and cost dynamics......Page 43
3. Adjustment cost dynamics......Page 45
4. Scale economies and learning by doing......Page 47
5. Pareto efficiency frontier: DEA approach......Page 50
6. Industry growth and optimal investment......Page 58
7. Concluding remarks......Page 67
1. Introduction......Page 69
2. Measuring production efficiency and growth......Page 70
3. Stochastic frontier analysis......Page 71
4. DEA models......Page 75
5. Efficiency in the computer industry......Page 76
6. Efficiency in the pharmaceutical industry......Page 86
7. Concluding remarks......Page 94
1. Introduction......Page 96
2. R&D and market structure......Page 97
3. Strategies of a dominant firm......Page 102
4. Limit pricing with technological change and internal finance......Page 105
5. Appendix......Page 118
2. Dynamic DEA models......Page 125
3. Growth and technology......Page 129
4. Industry evolution and innovation......Page 131
5. Hypercompetitive market structures......Page 134
2. Efficiency and innovation......Page 149
3. Measuring efficiency......Page 157
4. Concluding remarks......Page 169
E......Page 172
L......Page 173
P......Page 174
Y......Page 175