Industrial Organization

In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perfectly competitive model, complications such as transaction costs, limited information, and barriers to entry of new firms that may be associated with imperfect competition. It analyzes determinants of firm and market organization and behavior on a continuum between competition and monopoly, including from government actions. There are different approaches to the subject. One approach is descriptive in providing an overview of industrial organization, such as …

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School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 1 February 2024 English

R E S E A R C H P A P E R Volume 17:02 Market Design for February 2024 the 21st Century: Recommendations for Alberta’s Power Market Blake Shaffer …

Electricity Market.” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 89, 102953. Bushnell, James, Benjamin


CIRANO: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations · 22 December 2023 English

The paradox of the current situation lies in the fact that it is possible to reconcile a high degree of price differentiation and variability with the firms' ability to identify …

Implications for Competition Policy? Review of Industrial Organization, 55(1), 155-171. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48702985


CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 22 December 2023 English

Thus, it has operating practice with respect to the use become important to adjust for capacity of installed machines and the deployment utilization in estimating productivity func- of workers is …

sociated with the two significant economic Industrial Organization and Finance divi- downturns in Canada.9


CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 22 December 2023 English

The national accounts produced by the This paper extends a previous sensitiv- US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) ity analysis by Inklaar (2010), who focused are used as a laboratory …

sociated with the two significant economic Industrial Organization and Finance divi- downturns in Canada.9


CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 15 September 2023 English

The review also discusses data limitations in estimating the impact of broadband, including the critique of the use of broadband penetration rate as an instrument for broadband adoption, and the …

Italian firms.” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 86, 102901. Canadian Radio-television


JCCF: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms · 27 July 2023 English

It’s more difficult for the lecturer to understand and respond to the perspectives and interests in the room and more difficult to have a free-flowing question and answer session. [...] …

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Fraser Institute · 14 July 2023 English

An initial public offering (IPO) involves listing a firm’s shares for sale on a stock exchange for the first time (known colloquially as “going public”). This essay analyzes two questions …

firms to avoid or delay going public. Industrial organization economists have identified firms of below-efficient


Fraser Institute · 11 July 2023 English

Weak growth in Canada has persisted for a decade, with per capita real gross domestic product posting its smallest gain in nearly a century. Canada’s economy has grown significantly slower …

production and trans- portation, new forms of industrial organization” (Warsh, 2006: 123). Most economic research


CIRANO: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations · 9 June 2023 English

Buyers, on the other hand, might be uncertain about the quality of the item and the production costs for the seller. [...] The left-hand column of Figure 2 summarizes the …

and sellers. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 38:19– 31. Binmore, K. G. (1987). Perfect Analysis of an auction marketplace. Review of Industrial Organization, 37:3–42. Ivanova-Stenzel, R. and Kröger


Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy · 23 May 2023 English

The dual energy crises in 1973-74 and 1979-80 hit Ontario 12 hard but the province was spared the worst effects of the energy price shocks by the federal government’s two-price …

systems of technology, production processes, industrial organization, and their supporting infrastructures of technology, existing production processes, industrial organization, and supporting infrastructures of social


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