The U.S. paper industry has become increasingly concentrated and therefore been suspected of imperfect competition. In this study, the new empirical industrial organization approach is employed to measure the degree of oligopoly and oligopsony power in the U.S. paper industry simultaneously. The model is estimated by iterative three-stage least squares using annual data from 1955 to 2003. The r...

This paper provides an introduction to the analysis of games with strategic complementarities and applications to industrial organization: oligopoly pricing, comparative statics and a taxonomy of strategic behavior in two-stage games. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C72; L13

This paper uses the case of contract manufacturing in the electronics industry to illustrate an emergent American model of industrial organization, the modular production network. Lead firms in the modular production network concentrate on the creation, penetration, and defense of markets for end products—and increasingly the provision of services to go with them—while manufacturing capacity is...

We discuss new research directions in the field of behavioral industrial organization that we find promising: identification of new unobservables in equilibrium models, strengthening links with abstract choice theory, and integrating behavioral IO models in larger models of the economy.

This paper examines a simple version of the conduct parameter method widely used in empirical industrial organization and argues that the conduct parameter fails to measure market power accurately. It is shown analytically and with simulations that in a dynamic oligopoly model this mismeasurement can be quite severe. ( 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C1; L0

The shift away from mass production industries to new informationintensive industries is leading to speculation on what will supersede the Fordist model of industrial organization. This article outlines alternative models advanced as potential replacement for Fordism, and presents a new post-Fordist future, based upon exploration of the post-war evolution of Japan. Fujitsuism is posed as a pote...

We propose a measure of the dependence of a parameter estimate on specific features of the data. The measure can be computed at negligible cost even for computationally difficult models. It can be interpreted as a measure of sensitivity to model misspecification. The measure delivers satisfactory intuitions for pen-and-paper examples. We apply the measure to recent empirical papers in industria...

When to apply a new technology in an organization is a critical decision for every software development organization. Earlier work defines a set of methods that the research community uses when a new technology is developed. This chapter presents a discussion of the set of methods that industrial organizations use before adopting a new technology. First there is a brief definition of the earlie...

A major source of oppression in industrial and post-industrial society is the restrictive and highly authoritarian nature of the workplace. One response is to democratize the workplace by increasing the participation of workers in making decisions and in choosing and evaluating managers as well as sharing in the ownership of the firm. These are not new ideas, and there are many examples of orga...