Vertical relationships and the firm in the global economy

This book analyses the vertical relationships of firms in an international context. These relationships, Khalid Sekkat argues, have gained further relevance due to the notable increase in vertical specialization of production across borders in the past few years. The author discusses the objectives and instruments ...

The economics of services

development and policy

Jan Owen Jansson argues that conventional economic theory is very focused on material goods markets. By making the special character of services as market objects the starting point for the economic system analysis, he offers a new perspective on the problems facing mixed economies.

Modelling tax revenue growth

This book demonstrates how the reliable measurement of growth in tax revenues, both for a tax system and for its component taxes, is important for the design of tax policy. The need for discretionary changes in tax parameters (such as tax rates, income thresholds and ...

European merger control

do we need an efficiency defence?

During its first fifteen years, the EUs merger control system, unlike most others in the world, offered only minimal possibilities for taking efficiency gains into account as a mitigating factor that might offset the anti-competitive effects of a merger. This book examines the background to ...

The Elgar companion to health economics

The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50 ...

Innovation markets and competition analysis

EU competition Law and US antitrust Law

#The pace and scope of technological change is increasing, but some innovative technologies take years before they give rise to saleable products. Before they do, there is competition in ideas and research, but the ideas cannot be market tested, because there are no products or ...

Innovation strategies in interdependent States

essays on Smaller Nations, regions and cities in a globalized world

Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually ...

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology

essays in honour of Paul A. David

Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world's leading scholars ...

Beyond the regulation approach

putting capitalist economies in their place

Table of Contents: 1 Early regulation approaches in retrospect and prospect 2 Fordism and post-Fordism 3 Fordism, post-Fordism and the capitalist state 4 Neo-conservative regimes and the transition to post-Fordism 5 A regulationist re-reading of East Asian newly industrializing economies : from peripheral Fordism to exportism ...

Monetary and exchange rate systems

a global view of financial crises

Handbook on the economics of discrimination

Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers ...

Labour market adjustments in Europe

It is now widely accepted that expansionary fiscal or monetary policies alone are unlikely to help Europe's ailing economies. Solving Europe's economic problems requires reform of the economic institutions that influence economic activity and the way the economy responds to macroeconomic shocks. This ...

The economics of international integration

The splintering of the multilateral trading system into a number of trading blocs and arrangements has been one of the most important issues in international economics, particularly after the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 and especially after the launch of the Doha ...

Civil society and legitimate european governance

This book explores the concept of #civil society#, which over recent years has been revived and introduced into the institutional debate within the EU. Significantly, EU institutions themselves have made reference to civil society and, on an academic plane, it has been argued that the ...

Monetary integration and dollarization

No Panacea

This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly, the book ...

Post-keynesian principles of economic policy

Post-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that ...

International competition policy

maintaining open markets in the global economy

The opening up of world markets, rapid growth of trade and foreign direct investment create manifold problems for competition policy. Thus, international mergers may have adverse effects on many countries, international cartels may carve up world markets and dominant firms may seek to maintain their ...

The Elgar Companion to public economics

empirical public economics

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students but ...

Global regionalisation

core peripheral trends

Global Regionalization examines the astonishing political and economic changes that have completely reshaped the political geography of certain regions during the past fifteen years. It deals with the concept of global bloc formation, examining the impacts that changing political-economic conditions and relationships in and between ...

Ranking business schools

forming fields, identities and boundaries in international management education

International comparisons and rankings of universities and business schools have proliferated in recent years. Ranking Business Schools provides a welcome analysis of this development and its implications for the field of management education, theorizing the role of classifications such as rankings in forming and structuring ...

The legacy of Ludwig von Mises

#The profoundly original Ludwig von Mises made pioneering contributions to our understanding of the modern economy in a number of areas: the problem of economic calculation under socialism, the dynamics of the mixed economy, the ordering role of market forces in banking and finance, and ...

Putting econometrics in its place

a new direction in applied economics

This is a refreshing look at applied economics, which the author argues should be so much more than applied econometrics plus experimental economics. What he calls vernacular economics is nothing less than an omnibus of fact-gathering techniques that eco