Structure, Conduct and Performance

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Summary

This volume brings together those seminal studies which have been the most influential in shaping this empirical literature.

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Acknowledgements
Editors' introduction
Determinants of market structure	p. 1
Factors in changing concentration	p. 3
Comment	p. 17
The survival technique and the extent of sub-optimal capacity	p. 19
Comment	p. 43
An evaluation of mergers in six industries	p. 44
Appendix	p. 59
The geographic size of markets in manufacturing	p. 64
Appendix	p. 83
Optimal plant size and the extent of sub-optimal capacity	p. 92
Comment	p. 112
The extent and effects of aggregate concentration	p. 116
Appendix A	p. 136
Appendix B	p. 143
Market structure and performance	p. 147
Average concentration ratios and industrial performance	p. 149
Concentration and labor earnings	p. 168
Comment	p. 191
Firm size and profitability	p. 193
Comment	p. 215
Advertising, profits, and corporate taxes	p. 216
The concentration-profits relationship and antitrust	p. 235
Comment	p. 297
Advertising, concentration, and price-cost margins	p. 298
Comment	p. 312
Concentration and price	p. 313
Business pricing policies and inflation reconsidered	p. 315
Comment	p. 331
Stigler, Kindahl, and Means on administered prices	p. 332
Comment	p. 349
Concentration, price, and critical concentration ratios	p. 351
Comment	p. 365
Change in concentration, change in cost, change in demand, and change in price	p. 366
Comment	p. 390
Conclusion	p. 393
The structure-conduct-performance paradigm and antitrust	p. 395
Index	p. 431
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