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Managerial Economics and StrategyĀ uses real-Āworld issues and examples to illustrate how economic principles impact business decisions. Emphases on agency and contract theory, managerial behavioral economics, game theory, and pricing are especially valuable to future managers. In-text examples and boxed miniĀ-cases use actual data to illustrate the use of basic economic models, while Q&As pose important managerial or economic problems and demonstrate a step-by-step approach to solving them.
TheĀ Second EditionĀ has been fully revised and updated to reflect new supply-and-demand curves and include discussions of corporate social responsibility, opportunistic behavior, and innovation. It also features new learning objectives, examples, end-of-chapter questions, and spreadsheet exercises.
Table of Content:
- Chapter 1āIntroduction
- 1.1 Managerial Decision Making
- Profit
- TradeāOffs
- Other Decision Makers
- Strategy
- 1.2 Economic Models
- MiniāCaseāUsing an Income Threshold Model in China
- Simplifying Assumptions
- Testing Theories
- Positive and Normative Statements
- Summary
- Chapter 2āSupply and Demand
- Managerial ProblemāCarbon Taxes
- 2.1 Demand
- The Demand Curve
- The Demand Function
- Using CalculusāDeriving the Slope of a Demand Curve
- Summing Demand Curves
- MiniāCaseāSumming Corn Demand Curves
- 2.2 Supply
- The Supply Curve
- The Supply Function
- Summing Supply Curves
- 2.3 Market Equilibrium
- Using a Graph to Determine the Equilibrium
- Using Algebra to Determine the Equilibrium
- Forces That Drive the Market to Equilibrium
- 2.4 Shocks to the Equilibrium
- Effects of a Shift in the Demand Curve
- Q&Aā2.1
- Effects of a Shift in the Supply Curve
- Managerial ImplicationāTaking Advantage of Future Shocks
- Effects of Shifts in both Supply and Demand Curves
- MiniāCaseāGenetically Modified Foods
- Q&Aā2.2
- 2.5 Effects of Government Interventions
- Policies That Shift Curves
- MiniāCaseāOccupational Licensing
- Price Controls
- MiniāCaseāVenezuelan Price Ceilings and Shortages
- Sales Taxes
- Q&Aā2.3
- Managerial ImplicationāCost PassāThrough
- 2.6 When to Use the SupplyāandāDemand Model
- Managerial SolutionāCarbon Taxes
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 3āEmpirical Methods for Demand Analysis
- Managerial ProblemāEstimating the Effect of an iTunes Price Change
- 3.1 Elasticity
- The Price Elasticity of Demand
- Managerial ImplicationāChanging Prices to Calculate an Arc Elasticity
- Q&Aā3.1
- MiniāCaseāDemand Elasticities for Google Play and Apple Apps
- Using CalculusāThe Point Elasticity of Demand
- Elasticity Along the Demand Curve
- Q&Aā3.2
- Other Demand Elasticities
- MiniāCaseāAntiāSmoking Policies May Reduce Drunk Driving
- Demand Elasticities over Time
- Other Elasticities
- Estimating Demand Elasticities
- 3.2 Regression Analysis
- A Demand Function Example
- MiniāCaseāThe Portland Fish Exchange
- Multivariate Regression
- Q&Aā3.3
- Goodness of Fit and the R2 Statistic
- Managerial ImplicationāFocus Groups
- 3.3 Properties and Statistical Significance of āEstimated Coefficients
- Repeated Samples
- Desirable Properties for Estimated Coefficients
- A Focus Group Example
- Confidence Intervals
- Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Significance
- 3.4 Regression Specification
- Selecting Explanatory Variables
- MiniāCaseāDeterminants of CEO Compensation
- Q&Aā3.4
- Functional Form
- Managerial ImplicationāExperiments
- 3.5 Forecasting
- Extrapolation
- TheoryāBased Econometric Forecasting
- Managerial SolutionāEstimating the Effect of an iTunes Price Change
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 4āConsumer Choice
- Managerial ProblemāPaying Employees to Relocate
- 4.1 Consumer Preferences
- Properties of Consumer Preferences
- MiniāCaseāYou Canāt Have Too Much Money
- Preference Maps
- 4.2 Utility
- Utility Functions
- Ordinal and Cardinal Utility
- Marginal Utility
- Using CalculusāMarginal Utility
- Marginal Rates of Substitution
- 4.3 The Budget Constraint
- Slope of the Budget Line
- Using CalculusāThe Marginal Rate of Transformation
- Effects of a Change in Price on the āOpportunity Set
- Effects of a Change in Income on the āOpportunity Set
- Q&Aā4.1
- MiniāCaseāRationing
- Q&Aā4.2
- 4.4 Constrained Consumer Choice
- The Consumerās Optimal Bundle
- Q&Aā4.3
- MiniāCaseāWhy Americans Buy More EāBooks Than Do Germans
- Q&Aā4.4
- Promotions
- Managerial ImplicationāDesigning Promotions
- 4.5 Deriving Demand Curves
- 4.6 Behavioral Economics
- Tests of Transitivity
- Endowment Effects
- MiniāCaseāHow You Ask the Question Matters
- Salience
- Managerial ImplicationāSimplifying āConsumer Choices
- Managerial SolutionāPaying Employees to Relocate
- Summary
- Questions
- Appendix 4A The Marginal Rate of Substitution
- Appendix 4B The Consumer Optimum
- Chapter 5āProduction
- Managerial ProblemāLabor Productivity During Recessions
- 5.1 Production Functions
- 5.2 ShortāRun Production
- The Total Product Function
- The Marginal Product of Labor
- Using CalculusāCalculating the Marginal Product of Labor
- Q&Aā5.1
- The Average Product of Labor
- Graphing the Product Curves
- The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
- MiniāCaseāMalthus and the Green Revolution
- 5.3 LongāRun Production
- Isoquants
- MiniāCaseāA Semiconductor Isoquant
- Substituting Inputs
- Q&Aā5.2
- Using CalculusāCobbāDouglas Marginal Products
- 5.4 Returns to Scale
- Constant, Increasing, and Decreasing Returns to Scale
- Q&Aā5.3
- MiniāCaseāReturns to Scale for Crocs
- Varying Returns to Scale
- Managerial ImplicationāSmall Is Beautiful
- 5.5 Innovation
- Process Innovation
- MiniāCase Robots and the Food You Eat
- Organizational Innovation
- MiniāCaseāA Good Boss Raises Productivity
- Managerial SolutionāLabor Productivity During Recessions
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 6āCosts
- Managerial ProblemāTechnology Choice at Home Versus Abroad
- 6.1 The Nature of Costs
- Opportunity Costs
- MiniāCaseāThe Opportunity Cost of an MBA
- Q&Aā6.1
- Costs of Durable Inputs
- Sunk Costs
- Managerial ImplicationāIgnoring Sunk Costs
- 6.2 ShortāRun Costs
- Common Measures of Cost
- Using CalculusāCalculating Marginal Cost
- Cost Curves
- Production Functions and the Shapes of Cost Curves
- Using CalculusāCalculating Cost Curves
- ShortāRun Cost Summary
- 6.3 LongāRun Costs
- MiniāCaseāShort Run Versus Long Run in the Sharing Economy
- Input Choice
- Managerial ImplicationāCost Minimization by Trial and Error
- MiniāCaseāThe Internet and Outsourcing
- Q&Aā6.2
- The Shapes of LongāRun Cost Curves
- MiniāCaseāEconomies of Scale at Google
- Q&Aā6.3
- LongāRun Average Cost as the Envelope of ShortāRun Average Cost Curves
- MiniāCaseāLongāRun Cost Curves in Beer Manufacturing and Oil Pipelines
- 6.4 The Learning Curve
- MiniāCaseāLearning by Drilling
- 6.5 The Costs of Producing Multiple Goods
- MiniāCaseāMedical Economies of Scope
- Managerial SolutionāTechnology Choice at Home Versus Abroad
- Summary
- Questions
- Appendix 6A LongāRun Cost Minimization
- Chapter 7āFirm Organization and Market Structure
- Managerial ProblemāClawing Back Bonuses
- 7.1 Ownership and Governance of Firms
- Private, Public, and Nonprofit Firms
- MiniāCaseāChinese StateāOwned Enterprises
- Ownership of ForāProfit Firms
- Firm Governance
- 7.2 Profit Maximization
- Profit
- Two Steps to Maximizing Profit
- Using CalculusāMaximizing Profit
- Q&Aā7.1
- Managerial ImplicationāMarginal Decision Making
- Profit over Time
- Managerial ImplicationāStock Prices Versus Profit
- 7.3 Ownersā Versus Managersā Objectives
- Consistent Objectives
- Q&Aā7.2
- Conflicting Objectives
- Q&Aā7.3
- MiniāCaseāCompany Jets
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Monitoring and Controlling a Managerās Actions
- Takeovers and the Market for Corporate Control
- MiniāCaseāThe Yahoo! Poison Pill
- 7.4 The Make or Buy Decision
- Stages of Production
- Vertical Integration
- Profitability and the Supply Chain Decision
- MiniāCaseāVertical Integration at Zara
- MiniāCaseāAluminum
- Market Size and the Life Cycle of a Firm
- 7.5 Market Structure
- The Four Main Market Structures
- Comparison of Market Structures
- Road Map to the Rest of the Book
- Managerial SolutionāClawing Back Bonuses
- Summary
- Questions
- Appendix 7A Interest Rates, Present Value, and Future Value
- Chapter 8āCompetitive Firms and Markets
- Managerial ProblemāThe Rising Cost of Keeping On Truckinā
- 8.1 Perfect Competition
- Characteristics of a Perfectly Competitive Market
- Deviations from Perfect Competition
- 8.2 Competition in the Short Run
- How Much to Produce
- Q&Aā8.1
- Using CalculusāProfit Maximization with a Specific Tax
- Whether to Produce
- MiniāCaseāFracking and Shutdowns
- Managerial ImplicationāSunk Costs and the Shutdown Decision
- The ShortāRun Firm Supply Curve
- The ShortāRun Market Supply Curve
- ShortāRun Competitive Equilibrium
- 8.3 Competition in the Long Run
- LongāRun Competitive Profit Maximization
- The LongāRun Firm Supply Curve
- MiniāCaseāThe Size of Ethanol Processing Plants
- The LongāRun Market Supply Curve
- MiniāCaseāEntry and Exit of Solar Power Firms
- MiniāCaseāAn UpwardāSloping LongāRun Supply Curve for Cotton
- LongāRun Competitive Equilibrium
- Q&Aā8.2
- Zero LongāRun Profit with Free Entry
- 8.4 Competition Maximizes Economic WellāBeing
- Consumer Surplus
- Managerial ImplicationāWillingness to Pay on eBay
- Producer Surplus
- Q&Aā8.3
- Q&Aā8.4
- Competition Maximizes Total Surplus
- MiniāCaseāThe Deadweight Loss of Christmas Presents
- Effects of Government Intervention
- Q&Aā8.5
- Managerial SolutionāThe Rising Cost of Keeping On Truckinā
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 9āMonopoly
- Managerial ProblemāBrandāName and Generic Drugs
- 9.1 Monopoly Profit Maximization
- Marginal Revenue
- Using CalculusāDeriving a Monopolyās Marginal Revenue Function
- Q&Aā9.1
- Choosing Price or Quantity
- Two Steps to Maximizing Profit
- Using CalculusāSolving for the ProfitāMaximizing Output
- Effects of a Shift of the Demand Curve
- 9.2 Market Power
- Market Power and the Shape of the Demand Curve
- Managerial ImplicationāChecking Whether the Firm Is Maximizing Profit
- MiniāCaseāCable Cars and Profit Maximization
- The Lerner Index
- MiniāCaseāAppleās iPad
- Q&Aā9.2
- Sources of Market Power
- 9.3 Market Failure Due to Monopoly Pricing
- Q&Aā9.3
- 9.4 Causes of Monopoly
- CostāBased Monopoly
- Q&Aā9.4
- Government Creation of Monopoly
- MiniāCaseāThe Canadian Medical Marijuana Market
- MiniāCaseāBotox
- 9.5 Advertising
- Deciding Whether to Advertise
- How Much to Advertise
- Using CalculusāOptimal Advertising
- Q&Aā9.5
- MiniāCaseāSuper Bowl Commercials
- 9.6 Networks, Dynamics, and Behavioral āEconomics
- Network Externalities
- Network Externalities and Behavioral Economics
- Network Externalities as an Explanation for Monopolies
- MiniāCaseāCritical Mass and eBay
- Managerial ImplicationāIntroductory Prices
- Managerial SolutionāBrandāName and Generic Drugs
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 10āPricing with Market Power
- Managerial ProblemāSale Prices
- 10.1 Conditions for Price Discrimination
- Why Price Discrimination Pays
- MiniāCaseāDisneyland Pricing
- Which Firms Can Price Discriminate
- Managerial ImplicationāPreventing Resale
- MiniāCaseāPreventing Resale of Designer Bags
- Not All Price Differences Are Price Discrimination
- Types of Price Discrimination
- 10.2 Perfect Price Discrimination
- How a Firm Perfectly Price Discriminates
- Perfect Price Discrimination Is Efficient but Harms Some Consumers
- MiniāCaseāBotox Revisited
- Q&Aā10.1
- Individual Price Discrimination
- MiniāCaseāGoogle Uses Bidding for Ads to Price Discriminate
- 10.3 Group Price Discrimination
- Group Price Discrimination with Two Groups
- Using CalculusāMaximizing Profit for a Group Discriminating Monopoly
- Q&Aā10.2
- Identifying Groups
- Managerial ImplicationāDiscounts
- Effects of Group Price Discrimination on Total Surplus
- 10.4 Nonlinear Price Discrimination
- 10.5 TwoāPart Pricing
- TwoāPart Pricing with Identical Consumers
- TwoāPart Pricing with Differing Consumers
- MiniāCaseāAvailable for a Song
- 10.6 Bundling
- Pure Bundling
- Mixed Bundling
- Q&Aā10.3
- Requirement TieāIn Sales
- Managerial ImplicationāTies That Bind
- 10.7 PeakāLoad Pricing
- MiniāCaseāDownhill Pricing
- Managerial SolutionāSale Prices
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 11āOligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
- Managerial ProblemāGaining an Edge from Government Aircraft Subsidies
- 11.1 Cartels
- Why Cartels Succeed or Fail
- MiniāCaseāThe AppleāGoogleāIntelāAdobeāIntuitāLucasfilmāPixar Wage Cartel
- Maintaining Cartels
- MiniāCaseāCheating on the Maple Syrup Cartel
- 11.2 Cournot Oligopoly
- Airlines
- Using CalculusāDeriving a Cournot Firmās Marginal Revenue
- The Number of Firms
- MiniāCaseāMobile Phone Number Portability
- Nonidentical Firms
- Q&Aā11.1
- Q&Aā11.2
- Managerial ImplicationāDifferentiating a Product Through Marketing
- Mergers
- MiniāCaseāAcquiring Versus Merging
- 11.3 Bertrand Oligopoly
- Identical Products
- Differentiated Products
- 11.4 Monopolistic Competition
- Managerial ImplicationāManaging in the Monopolistically Competitive Food Truck Market
- Equilibrium
- Q&Aā11.3
- Profitable Monopolistically Competitive Firms
- MiniāCaseāZoning Laws as a Barrier to Entry by Hotel Chains
- Managerial SolutionāGaining an Edge from Government Aircraft Subsidies
- Summary
- Questions
- Appendix 11A Cournot Oligopoly with Many Firms
- Appendix 11B NashāBertrand Equilibrium
- Chapter 12āGame Theory and Business Strategy
- Managerial ProblemāDying to Work
- 12.1 Oligopoly Games
- Dominant Strategies
- Best Responses
- Failure to Maximize Joint Profits
- MiniāCaseāStrategic Advertising
- Q&Aā12.1
- 12.2 Types of Nash Equilibria
- Multiple Equilibria
- MiniāCaseāTiming Radio Ads
- MixedāStrategy Equilibria
- MiniāCaseāCompeting EāBook Formats
- Q&Aā12.2
- 12.3 Information and Rationality
- Incomplete Information
- Managerial ImplicationāSolving Coordination Problems
- Rationality
- Managerial ImplicationāUsing Game Theory to Make Business Decisions
- 12.4 Bargaining
- Bargaining Games
- The Nash Bargaining Solution
- Q&Aā12.3
- Using CalculusāMaximizing the Nash Product
- MiniāCaseāNash Bargaining over Coffee
- Inefficiency in Bargaining
- 12.5 Auctions
- Elements of Auctions
- Bidding Strategies in PrivateāValue Auctions
- MiniāCaseāExperienced Bidders
- The Winnerās Curse
- Managerial ImplicationāAuction Design
- Managerial SolutionāDying to Work
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 13āStrategies over Time
- Managerial ProblemāIntel and AMDās Advertising Strategies
- 13.1 Repeated Games
- Strategies and Actions in Dynamic Games
- Cooperation in a Repeated Prisonerās Dilemma Game
- MiniāCaseāTitāforāTat Strategies in Trench Warfare
- Implicit Versus Explicit Collusion
- Finitely Repeated Games
- 13.2 Sequential Games
- Stackelberg Oligopoly
- Credible Threats
- Q&Aā13.1
- 13.3 Deterring Entry
- Exclusion Contracts
- MiniāCaseāPayāforāDelay Agreements
- Limit Pricing
- MiniāCaseāPfizer Uses Limit Pricing to Slow Entry
- Q&Aā13.2
- Entry Deterrence in a Repeated Game
- 13.4 Cost and Innovation Strategies
- Investing to Lower Marginal Cost
- Learning by Doing
- Raising Rivalsā Costs
- Q&Aā13.3
- MiniāCaseāAuto Union Negotiations
- 13.5 Disadvantages of Moving First
- The Holdup Problem
- MiniāCaseāVenezuelan Nationalization
- Managerial ImplicationāAvoiding Holdups
- TooāEarly Product Innovation
- MiniāCaseāAdvantages and Disadvantages of Moving First
- 13.6 Behavioral Game Theory
- Ultimatum Games
- MiniāCaseāGMās Ultimatum
- Levels of Reasoning
- Managerial ImplicationāTaking Advantage of āLimited Strategic Thinking
- Managerial SolutionāIntel and AMDās āAdvertising Strategies
- Summary
- Questions
- Appendix 13A A Mathematical Approach to Stackelberg Oligopoly
- Chapter 14āManagerial Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Managerial ProblemāBPās Risk and Limited Liability
- 14.1 Assessing Risk
- Probability
- Expected Value
- Q&Aā14.1
- Variance and Standard Deviation
- Managerial ImplicationāSummarizing Risk
- 14.2 Attitudes Toward Risk
- Expected Utility
- Risk Aversion
- Q&Aā14.2
- Using CalculusāDiminishing Marginal Utility of Wealth
- MiniāCaseāStocksā Risk Premium
- Risk Neutrality
- Risk Preference
- MiniāCaseāGambling
- Risk Attitudes of Managers
- 14.3 Reducing Risk
- Obtaining Information
- MiniāCaseāBond Ratings
- Diversification
- Managerial ImplicationāDiversify Your Savings
- Insurance
- Q&Aā14.3
- MiniāCaseāLimited Insurance for Natural Disasters
- 14.4 Investing Under Uncertainty
- RiskāNeutral Investing
- RiskāAverse Investing
- Q&Aā14.4
- 14.5 Behavioral Economics and Uncertainty
- Biased Assessment of Probabilities
- MiniāCaseāBiased Estimates
- Violations of Expected Utility Theory
- Prospect Theory
- Managerial ImplicationāLoss Aversion Contracts
- Managerial SolutionāBPās Risk and Limited Liability
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 15āAsymmetric Information
- Managerial ProblemāLimiting Managerial Incentives
- 15.1 Adverse Selection
- Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets
- Products of Unknown Quality
- Q&Aā15.1
- Q&Aā15.2
- MiniāCaseāReducing Consumersā Information
- 15.2 Reducing Adverse Selection
- Restricting Opportunistic Behavior
- Equalizing Information
- Managerial ImplicationāUsing Brand Names and Warranties as Signals
- MiniāCaseāDiscounts for Data
- MiniāCaseāAdverse Selection and Remanufactured Goods
- 15.3 Moral Hazard
- Moral Hazard in Insurance Markets
- Moral Hazard in PrincipalāAgent Relationships
- MiniāCaseāSelfless or Selfish Doctors?
- Q&Aā15.3
- 15.4 Using Contracts to Reduce Moral Hazard
- FixedāFee Contracts
- Contingent Contracts
- MiniāCaseāSing for Your Supper
- Q&Aā15.4
- 15.5 Using Monitoring to Reduce Moral Hazard
- Hostages
- MiniāCaseāCapping Oil and Gas Bankruptcies
- Managerial ImplicationāEfficiency Wages
- AfterātheāFact Monitoring
- Managerial SolutionāLimiting Managerial Incentives
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 16āGovernment and Business
- Managerial ProblemāLicensing Inventions
- 16.1 Market Failure and Government Policy
- The Pareto Principle
- CostāBenefit Analysis
- 16.2 Regulation of Imperfectly Competitive Markets
- Regulating to Correct a Market Failure
- Q&Aā16.1
- MiniāCaseāNatural Gas Regulation
- Regulatory Capture
- Applying the CostāBenefit Principle to Regulation
- 16.3 Antitrust Law and Competition Policy
- Mergers
- MiniāCaseāAre Monopoly Mergers Harmful?
- Predatory Actions
- Vertical Relationships
- MiniāCaseāPiping Up about Exclusive Dealing
- 16.4 Externalities
- The Inefficiency of Competition with āExternalities
- Reducing Externalities
- MiniāCaseāPulp and Paper Mill Pollution and Regulation
- Q&Aā16.2
- MiniāCaseāWhy Tax Drivers
- The Coase Theorem
- Managerial ImplicationāBuying a Town
- 16.5 OpenāAccess, Club, and Public Goods
- OpenāAccess Common Property
- MiniāCaseāSpam
- Club Goods
- MiniāCaseāPiracy
- Public Goods
- 16.6 Intellectual Property
- Patents
- Q&Aā16.3
- Managerial ImplicationāTrade Secrets
- Copyright Protection
- Managerial SolutionāLicensing Inventions
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 17āGlobal Business
- Managerial ProblemāResponding to Exchange Rates
- 17.1 Reasons for International Trade
- Comparative Advantage
- Q&Aā17.1
- Managerial ImplicationāBrian Mayās Comparative Advantage
- Increasing Returns to Scale
- MiniāCaseāBarbie Doll Varieties
- 17.2 Exchange Rates
- Determining the Exchange Rate
- Exchange Rates and the Pattern of Trade
- Managerial ImplicationāLimiting Arbitrage and Gray Markets
- Managing Exchange Rate Risk
- 17.3 International Trade Policies
- Quotas and Tariffs in Competitive Markets
- MiniāCaseāRussian Food Ban
- Q&Aā17.2
- Rent Seeking
- Noncompetitive Reasons for Trade Policy
- MiniāCaseāDumping and Countervailing Duties for Solar Panels
- Trade Liberalization and the World Trading System
- Trade Liberalization Problems
- 17.4 Multinational Enterprises
- Becoming a Multinational
- MiniāCaseāWhatās an American Car?
- International Transfer Pricing
- Q&Aā17.3
- MiniāCaseāProfit Repatriation
- 17.5 Outsourcing
- Managerial SolutionāResponding to Exchange Rates
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers to Selected Questions
- Definitions
- References
- Sources for Managerial Problems, MiniāCases, and Managerial Implications
- Index
- Credits
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