time consistency problem ("durable goods monopoly"), and how the basic theory of third-degree price discrimination needs to …This is the first chapter of a graduate text entitled Topics in Microeconomics. It covers the basics of monopoly theory … be modified accordingly. The Chapter closes with the noncooperative bargaining theory of bilateral monopoly and suggests …

The theory of industrial organization has experienced an impressive boom by using the methods of (non-cooperative) game … theory. The conclusions depend, however. crucially on subtle details of the market decision processes about which there exist … no or little empirical information. Studies of endogenous timing could help since they derive the time structure of …