From airline reservations to sonic the hedgehog

a history of the software industry

From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers ...

Gambling in America

costs and benefits

Gambling in America carefully breaks new ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and ...

Competition policy

theory and practice

This is the first book to provide a systematic treatment of the economics of antitrust (or competition policy) in a global context. It draws on the literature of industrial organisation and on original analyses to deal with such important issues as cartels, joint-ventures, mergers, vertical ...

The business of sport management

The scale and importance of the lucrative sport industry demands quality business professionals. This text aims to equip the manager and future manager of sport organizations with the tools they need ÍNDICE: 1.Introduction - the unique evolution of sport as "business": governance and ethics - conflicting ...

The business of software

what every manager, programmer, and entrepreneur must know to thrive and survive in good times and bad

The software industry is in a fast-paced league of its own. The drive to have the highest level of speed, the highest level of flexibility in strategic planning, and the need to manage talent of a different generation and mindset, make it truly unique. Few ...

Veinte años de privatizaciones en España

La privatización de empresas públicas tiene muchas facetas. Ha sido un instrumento adecuado para aumentar la eficiencia de las empresas implicadas, introducir competitividad, ayudar a la eliminación del déficit público, ampliar los mercados financieros y estimular el ahorro particular. Más allá del volumen de ingresos ...

The economics of standards

theory,evidence, policy

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the important topic of standards, which remains a vastly under-researched field of empirical inquiry. It presents a variety of interesting empirical analyses which reveal the driving forces and the economic impacts of standardization both in the manufacturing and ...

Games and public administration

the law of economics of regulation and licensing

Despite the increasing trend towards deregulation, the public regulation of private activities remains a common phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, it is frequently claimed that slow and costly regulatory licensing procedures impede economic growth. This book investigates the strategic and adaptive interaction between citizen-applicants and ...

Biotech industry

a global, economic, and financing overview

Provides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnology industry, including where major research is being conducted, where it#s being applied, and where money and intellectual capital are flowing. Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurial scientist in the biotech ...

Política cultural

Desde el punto de vista estético, la cultura opera como un significante de las diferencias y similitudes en el gusto, la sensibilidad y el estatus de los grupos sociales. Antropológicamente, se trata de comprender la manera en que vivimos nuestra vida dentro de esos grupos ...

El merco regulador del medicamento

un análisis institucional conparado España-Estados Unidos

Économie de la réglementation

Pour réduire la pollution, faut-il taxer le CO2, créer un marché de droits de polluer ou fixer des normes d'émission ? Faut-il accorder un droit de monopole à la distribution du courrier ? La déréglementation remet-elle en cause le service public ? la réglementation est-elle d'abord ...

Derecho de la competencia europeo y español

Vol. V: Curso de iniciación

La descentralización del modelo español de Defensa de la Competencia ocupa un lugar preeminente en este volumen. Los artículos efectúan un examen crítico de la Ley 1/2002 de Coordinación de las Competencias entre el Estado y las Comunidades Autónomas en materia de Defensa de ...

Principios de Derecho público económico

modelo de Estado, gestión pública, regulación económica

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La industria de la cultura y el ocio

un análisis económico

En este trabajo Vogel examina detalladamente las principales industrias culturales, prestando especial atención a su desarrollo en los Estados Unidos y en otros mercados internacionales. Gracias a su pormenorizado análisis de sectores como el cine, la música grabada, las artes escénicas, la televisión, la radio ...

Teoría y política de privatizaciones

su contribución a la modernización económica: análisis del caso español

El libro Teoría y Política de Privatizaciones:su contribución a la modernización económica.Análisis del caso español, ofrece al lector nuevas aportaciones sobre el proceso de privatizaciones en generaly,particularmente ,sobre el caso español. En sus páginas,se presentan treinta y un estudios que contienen ...

Telecommunications strategy

cases, theories and applications

The telecommunications industry is one of the most influential and significant global industries. As well as being fundamentally important to the health of the modern economy, it is going through a period of unprecedented change, facing a range of strategic challenges from globalization and cross-border ...

R&D, innovation and competitivness in the european chemical industry

R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry explores the science & technology base and the dynamic performance of the European "system of innovation" in the chemical industry, with particular attention to its contribution to economic growth through innovation and competitiveness, and its ability to translate its research into commercially useful products. It also analyses the forces that encourage the diffusion of chemical innovations on downstream user industries and among large and small firms. The studies presented in this book represent an analysis of the issues and questions raised by the Green Paper on Innovation presented by the European Commission, for the specific case of the European chemical industry. R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry will be of interest to industry and government experts related to the chemical industry, scholars; both faculty and graduate students interested in growth, corporate strategy and the management of innovation.

US and EC oligopoly control

When major suppliers independently (or otherwise) perceive that they can collectively control the market price of a product, is it collusion? Not necessarily. Yet for consumers this interdependent pricing variously called tacit collusion, or conscious parallellism is experienced precisely as collusion would be experienced. This ...

European aviation Law

Once a byword for the economic power of national government - with competition strictly regulated - European commercial aviation has now virtually become a market without state-imposed anticompetitive restrictions. Although intended to enhance competition, this situation has in fact driven airlines to form massive global alliances cartels ...