Topics in microeconomics : industrial organization, auctions, and incentives /
por Elmar Wolfstetter. --
- Cambridge, UK ; Nova York, EUA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- 370 p.
Preface Acknowledgments I - Imperfect Competition 1. Monopoly 2. Regulation of Monopoly 3. Oligopoly and Industrial Organization II - Risk, Stochastic Dominance, and Risk Aversion 4. Stochastic Dominance: Theory 5. Stochastic Dominance: Applications 7. Risk Aversion III - Incomplete Information and Incentives 7. Matching: The Marriage Problem 8. Auctions 9. Hidden Information and Adverse Selection 10. Hidden Information and Signaling 11. Hidden Action and Moral Hazard 12. Rank-Order Tournaments IV - Technical Supplements A. Nonlinear Optimization: The Classical Approach B. Inequality-Constrained Optimization C. Convexity and Generalizations D. From Expected Values to Order Statistics Bibliography Index