Online Textbooks in Industrial Economics

Industrial Organization, a Contract Based approach

Nicholas Boccard, University of Girona

PDF of over 800 pages including an extensive bibliography, released in 2010. "The analysis of market interactions, business strategies and public policy is performed using the standard framework of game theory and the recent advances of contract theory and information economics. The book is written from a European perspective, set side by side with the US experience."

Published or updated: 2010

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)

Network economics

Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Network Economics is an introductory text by Anna Nagurney of the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts. It includes notes and reading list on economics of networks, mostly as text and basic diagrams. Includes cost and distance optimisation problems, congestion (including Braess's Paradox) and applications of networks to economics.

Published or updated: 2002

Industrial organization : a strategic approach

Jeffrey Church, University of Calgary, Roger Ware, Queen's University, Ontario

Industrial organization: a strategic approach is an online version of a text book written by Canadian economists Jeffrey Church and Roger Ware, in 2000. This intermediate level text on industrial economics covers, monopolies, oligopoly pricing, strategic behaviour, issues in antitrust economics and issues in regulatory economics. It is available as a single PDF download of over 1000 pages.

Published or updated: 2000