(8th edition) (the pearson series in economics) robert pindyck, daniel rubinfeld microecon 771

LIST OF EXAMPLES
9.6 The Sugar Quota

14.2 Labor Supply for One- and Two-Earner
Households 541

342

9.7 A Tax on Gasoline

349

10.1 Astra-Merck Prices Prilosec

14.3 Pay in the Military

364

10.2 Elasticities of Demand for Soft Drinks

545

14.4 Monopsony Power in the Market for Baseball
Players 548

370

10.3 Markup Pricing: Supermarkets to Designer Jeans 372

14.5 Teenage Labor Markets and the Minimum Wage 549

10.4 The Pricing of Videos

14.6 The Decline of Private-Sector Unionism

374

10.5 Monopsony Power in U.S. Manufacturing
10.6 A Phone Call about Prices

388

392
393

11.1 The Economics of Coupons and Rebates

563

15.2 The Yields on Corporate Bonds

10.8 The United States and the European Union versus
Microsoft 394
408

553

554

15.1 The Value of Lost Earnings

10.7 Go Directly to Jail. Don’t Pass Go.

11.2 Airline Fares

14.7 Wage Inequality Revisited

567

15.3 The Value of a New York City Taxi Medallion

15.5 Choosing an Air Conditioner and a New Car

409

11.3 How to Price a Best-Selling Novel
11.4 Pricing Cellular Phone Service

15.5 Should You Go to Business School?

413

16.1 The Global Market for Ethanol

11.5 The Complete Dinner versus á la Carte: A
Restaurant’s Pricing Problem 427
11.6 Advertising in Practice

587

598

16.2 “Contagion” across Stock Markets around the
World 600

432

12.1 Monopolistic Competition in the Markets for Colas
and Coffee 455

16.3 Trading Tasks and iPod Production

12.2 A Pricing Problem for Procter & Gamble

16.5 Inefficiency in the Health Care System

12.3 Procter & Gamble in a Prisoners’ Dilemma

579

582

15.6 How Depletable are Depletable Resources?

417

573

15.4 Capital Investment in the Disposable Diaper
Industry 576

467
471

621

16.4 The Costs and Benefits of Special Protection
17.1 Medicare

622

626

636

12.4 Price Leadership and Price Rigidity in Commercial
Banking 475

17.2 Lemons in Major League Baseball

12.5 The Prices of College Textbooks

12.6 The Cartelization of lntercollegiate Athletics 480

17.4 Reducing Moral Hazard: Warranties of Animal
Health 645

12.7 The Milk Cartel

17.5 CEO Salaries

476

481

13.1 Acquiring a Company

17.3 Working into the Night

647

17.6 Managers of Nonprofit Hospitals as Agents

490

13.2 Oligopolistic Cooperation in the Water Meter
Industry 501
13.3 Competition and Collusion in the Airline
Industry 501

17.7 Efficiency Wages at Ford Motor Company

13.5 DuPont Deters Entry in the Titanium Dioxide
Industry 514

18.4 Regulating Municipal Solid Wastes

13.6 Diaper Wars

18.6 The Coase Theorem at Work

13.8 Internet Auctions

522

14.1 The Demand for Jet Fuel

18.5 Global Warming

536

673

682
687

18.7 Crawfish Fishing in Louisiana
18.8 The Demand for Clean Air

522

656

18.2 Reducing Sulfur Dioxide Emissions in Beijing
18.3 Emissions Trading and Clean Air

515

649

18.1 The Costs and Benefits of Sulfur Dioxide

Emissions 665

13.4 Wal-Mart Stores’ Preemptive Investment Strategy 509

13.7 Auctioning Legal Services

637

642

A.1 The Demand for Coal

706

693

689

678

672