Advanced Industrial Economics

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This updated and substantially revised second edition, like its predecessor, integrates a discussion of the latest theoretical developments with a comprehensive review of empirical work. Designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduates in industrial economics, there are complete treatments of the basic oligopoly models that are the bread and butter of theoretical industrial economics (Cournot, Bertrand, and extensions; horizontal and vertical product differentiation), of models of strategic behavior as well as of the determination of market and firm structure, and of the literatures on collusion, advertising, and the economics of innovation. Stephen Martin also provides a complete review of empirical tests of market performance, from Bain to the 'empirical renaissance' and beyond.

contains expanded treatments of: hotelling's spatial model oligopoly with quality differentiation empirical evidence on entry and exit the analysis of firm structure presents new discussions of: the classical view of the Cournot model strategic substitutability and complementarity representative consumer models of product differentiation the Kreps and Scheinkman model with product differentiation the New Empirical Industrial Organization, Solow residual, and event study approaches to the analysis of market power deterministic and stochastic models of research and development With a more cohesive writing style, reduced size, additional invaluable information, and new problems to solve, the second edition of Advanced Industrial Economics is a key text in industrial economics.

The paperback edition of this book is not available from Blackwell in the US or Canda

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Great book, (0 stars to Amazon.co.uk).......2005-02-18

I bought this book 4 weeks ago and I am still waiting. I just keep receiving emails saying that they are having some delay so in 1-2 week they will dispatche the book.
If you really need this book go and buy it someplace else.

Good Starter of I.O, comprehensive, self-satisfactory.......2000-02-16

No doubt, one of the best for those interested in graduate level of industrial organization. Readers can learn about major business strategies in industrial markets and its welfare implications. Leading theories, major empirical analyses, and added author's view against too influential Chicago ideas will give@excellent perspective of the progress in the field. The appendix of game theory is written to make the book self-satisfactory.

Advanced Microeconomic Theory (2nd Edition)

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Excellent Micro book
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Advanced Microeconomic Theory (2nd Edition)
Geoffrey A. Jehle , and Philip J. Reny
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Excellent Micro book.......2007-06-29

This book is excellent. If you are a graduate student in economics I widely recommend it. I particullarly like the chapters on game theory, general equilibrium, asymmetric information, and auctions.

The best book for Micro.......2005-03-16

Firstable, this is a Graduate Micro book, nobody could properly say that it is not good if she is trying to get some stuff of this topic for the first time, this is not the goal of this book, it was created to make first year econ-grad students lives better.
I used MWG (Mas Colell) for the first semester Micro of the Phd program and most of my partners and I hated it, it is so complicated and has some excessive and wording detail for even simple things, however I should recognize that it is more complete than the rest of books, now in the second Micro we're using Jehle and Reny and we love it, to be honest this is the best book in Micro now (according to my knowledge and point of view), we also use Silberberg sometimes (very good) and Varian (has a lot of gaps even though it is easy to understand too) but this is the best, it is not probably as complete as MWG but it is more neat, precise and far more understandable, general equilibrium part has one third of the pages of MWG but it is better, it doesn't have Offer curves neither other minor things but the proofs of existence of Walrasian equilibrium and the welfare theorems are incredibly powerful and far shorter than those of MWG. For Game Theory it is also very very good, clear and precise without excessive wording.
I almost forgot....the Math appendix is the best I've ever found in any other Micro book, it gives you precisely what you need to get into the business.
This book is like "pure gold" no regrets of any kind.
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Fantastic.......2005-02-28

While the book is certainly aimed more at grad students, I've found it to be invaluable in my undergraduate studies. It delves deep into the analytical mathematics behind microeconomics, where Varian and Nicholson brush lightly across the surface.
Good for both undergraduates and graduates. Familiarity with the structure of analytic mathematical arguments required. Not for the economically or mathematically faint-of-heart.

I wish I knew about this book before grad micro..........2004-05-18

The assigned text in my graduate micro theory class was Mas-Collel/Whinston/Green (MWG), a book that I couldn't wait to get rid of. However, I have a much better appreciation of MWG after having read Jehle and Reny (JR). JR is strong where MWG is weak and vice versa. JR provides a clear, self-contained introduction to key concepts in advanced micromicroeconomic theory but is not comprehensive in its coverage. MWG on the other hand is more terse and requires a greater level of math preparation, but is truly the encyclopedia of micro. Regarding the comments of the disappointed reader from Cambridge MA, it's true that there are not many applications in J&R, but that's not really the point of this book. As the title indicates, this is a theory book. Nicolson's or even Varian's intermediate texts are good places to look for applications. But for grad micro theory, I would recommend reading both JR and MWG, in that order.

Disappointed.......2003-12-21

I am a Finance Ph.D. student and I bought this textbook for my Micro class, and I found that this book did a very poor job in explaining the Micro concepts to a student like me with solid math background but little micro one. The authors, for some reason, use a more than difficult language to explain even the simple things. I believe that great teacher is the one who can explain even the most complicated concepts in simple way. Obviously I do not put Jehle- Reny in this teacher category. If you want to get a simple yet meaningful concept explanation, check out Walter Nicholson's book. I highly recommend that book for the introduction to Micro.

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