Il mercato delle telecomunicazioni

dal monopolio delle telecomunicazioni alla liberalizzazione negli Stati Uniti e nell'UE

Nel volume sono analizzati gli effetti della liberalizzazione del mercato delle telecomunicazioni nei principali paesi industrializzati - Stati Uniti e Unione Europea - con specifica attenzione al caso italiano. Seguendo un'impostazione economico-istituzionale, gli autori forniscono da un lato un'aggiornata esposizione delle caratteristiche dei diversi mercati ...

On creating competition and strategic restructuring

regulatory reform in public utilities

#The introductory chapter by the editors is extremely wide-ranging and therefore very useful for any reader not yet introduced to the manifold intricacies of this topic. What is remarkable about this chapter is that three aspects are dealt with at the same time: the driving ...

Globalization or regionalization of the American and Asian can industry?

The automobile sector is one of the most archetypal global industries and is seen by many as one of the main drivers behind the homogenisation of world markets due to firms' internationalization strategies and the social practices that firms impose. This book argues that this ...

Communications in EU antitrust law

market power and public interest

Approaching the theme from an antitrust perspective and focusing on telecommunications and television broadcasting, this volume examines how traditional European competition law doctrines and principles can be applied to this converging sector. The application of antitrust rules to the communications sector is often one of ...

Corporate aftershock

the public policy lessons from the collapse of Enron and other major corporations

"The greatest tragedy of the Enron debacle is not likely to be the consequences of its bankruptcy, but from the erroneous institutional reforms that will take hold if its causes are not well understood. This thorough and thoughtful set of essays touches on all aspects ...

The dynamics of the price structure and the business cycle

the Italian evidence from 1945-2000

By exploring the price dynamics and business cycle of the Italian economy with reference to the most important international events, this text sheds new light on the country's current situation. Using a long- term analytical framework underpinned by principal theoretical approaches, the analysis places ...

Decentralised power generation in the liberalised EU energy markets

results from the DECENT Research Project

The book gives a comprehensive overview of technologies for decentralised power generation (DG technologies), including those based on both renewable energy sources (RES), and on combined heat and power (CHP) technologies, and of relevant policies of the EU and its Member States. Special attention is ...

Agricultural product prices

In an excellent synthesis of theory and measurement as they relate to agricultural prices, William G. Tomek and Kenneth L. Robinson set out principles for understanding the operation of markets for agricultural products. This heavily revised and updated edition of a classic in the field ...

Market-driven politics

neoliberal democracy and the public interest

Market-Driven Politics is a multi-level study, moving between an analysis of global economic forces through national politics to the changes occurring week by week in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyone#television broadcasting and health care. Public ...

Trattato di diritto amministrativo

.Vol. 34: Le privatizzazioni in Europa

Il volume si propone una approfondita analisi del fenomeno delle privatizzazioni sviluppatosi in Europa nelgli ultimi anni, con particolare riguardo alle esperienze registrate in Germania, Francia, Inghilterra e Spagna. L'opera si suddivide, così, in quattro parti, una per ogni ordinamento indagato. In ciascuna delle ...

Transport pricing of electricity network

Economía industrial

un enfoqie estratégico

A lo largo de este libro se analiza lo que sucede cuando las empresas poseen una cierta libertad para fijar el precio (poder de mercado). No sólo se limita a lo que acontece a los mercados de productos manufacturados, sino que abarca, asimismo, los servicios ...

Innovation strategies and performance in small firms

Exploring the scope, breadth and depth of innovation in small firms, the authors of this book employ an array of survey data to analyze the operating characteristics of dynamic small-firm populations. They investigate the strategies and activities that small firms pursue at different stages in ...

Competition, monopoly and corporate governance

essays in honour of Keith Cowling

INDICE -Internationalisation, trans-nationalism and technical change: coordination and hierarchy in the Japanese firm - the strategic decision making approach vs Aioi, Dan Coffey and Philip R. Tomlinson -Multinationals and labour - evidence from the international acquisition of UK firms, Martin J. Conyon et al -Financial constraints on ...

La industria de defensa

el desfase tecnológico entre la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos de América

Cuando estas líneas lleguen al lector, los resultados de las cumbres europeas de diciembre del 2013 y junio del 2015 estarán presentes sólo en las mentes de unos pocos expertos del sector y del puñado de personas que, por razones profesionales, estén obligados al seguimiento ...

Managed care and monopoly power

the antitrust challenge

As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals ...

The evolutionary analysis of economic policy

#This study is a pioneering effort to attempt to integrate evolutionary and economic theory in order to have a better understanding of the way in which political, economic and social systems evolve over time. The result is an exciting series of essays exploring the various ...

La innovación tecnológica en las organizaciones

El libro se divide en cuatro partes: 1º) Fundamentos de la innovación 2º) Estrategia e innovación Se analiza la innovación tecnológica en las pequeñas y medianas empresas y se presenta el concepto de alianza empresarial y su influencia en la estrategia de innovación de las ...

Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Economic behavior and legal institutions

an introductory survey

Markets would not function unless supported by a legal framework. That framework is no self-contained, exogenous structure; it has evolved in response to the demands of economic activity. There are laws made to influence or modify market behaviour, in an attempt to produce the desired ...