Microeconomic change in central and east Europe

Limits and control of competition with a view to international harmonization

Economic regulation and competition

Regulation of services in the EU, Germany and Japan

Game Theory and economic analysis

a quiet revolution in economics

This book presents the huge variety of current contributions of game theory to economics. The impressive contributions fall broadly into two categories. Some lay out in a jargon free manner a particular branch of the theory, the evolution of one of its concepts, or a ...

Chapters in Game Theory

in Honor of Stef Tijs

"Chapters in Game Theory" was written to mark the occasion of the 65th birthday of Stef Tijs, who is regarded by many as the "godfather" of game theory in the Netherlands. The contributors all are indebted to Stef Tijs, as former PhD students or otherwise ...

Advanced macroeconomics

a primer

Since the rational expectations revolution in macroeconomics, the subject has changed massively, adopting the principles behind the revolution and building on them in a spectacular way. In this accessible and informative book, the authors guide the student through what has become the conceptual and mathematical ...

Macroeconomics

theories and policies

This text traces the history of macroeconomics, the evolution of macroeconomic thought, and the resulting theory and policy. The book places the various macroeconomic theories in the order in which they developed chronologically, and illustrates the similarities and differences of the models. The author admires ...

Macroeconomics

theories and policies

This text traces the history of macroeconomics, the evolution of macroeconomic thought, and the resulting theory and policy. The book places the various macroeconomic theories in the order in which they developed chronologically, and illustrates the similarities and differences of the models. The author admires ...

Business cycle theory

Business cycle theory is a broad and disparate field. Different schools of thought offer alternative explanations for cycles, often using different mathematical methods. This book provides academics and graduate students of economics with a compact and accessible exposition of business cycle theory since Keynes. The ...

Classical general equilibrium theory

Although general equilibrium theory originated in the late 19th century, modern elaboration and development of the theory began in the 1930s and 1940s. This book focuses on the version of the theory developed in the second half of the 20th century, referrred to by Lionel ...

General Equilibrium and Welfare

This overview of competitive general equilibrium theory and welfare economy adopts a methodological approach of a closed and inter-related system where all variables are simultaneously determined. By using theorems of fixed point, revealed preference and local and global stability, the author proves the existence of ...

Ciclos económicos

análisis teórico, histórico y estadístico del proceso capitalista

El libro, publicado originariamente en 1939, constituye una prolongación de la Teoría del desenvolvimiento económico (1911). En esta magna obra Schumpeter pretendió fijar la dinámica del capitalismo desde finales del siglo XVIII combinando su teoría de la innovación con materiales históricos y estadísticos. Tras una ...

The Cambridge controversies in capital theory

A study in the logic of theory development

This book explains the debate over the Cambridge controversies of the 1960s and 1970s. In a compelling and comprehensive argument, Birner discusses the main contributions to the controversy in a series of case studies. He gradually develops a methodological model of idealizations that explains both ...

The nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This concise book, by one of the leading scholars in development economics, has been developed from a series of lectures given to masters students and will serve as an excellent introduction to the principles of growth and development theory. The author presents conventional wisdom with ...

Econometrics

.V.3. Economic growth in the information age

The decline in the prices of information technology (IT) has enhanced the role of IT investment as a source of economic growth in the US. This text shows that IT provides the foundation for the resurgence of American economic growth. Information technology rests in turn ...

Producción e incertidumbre en equilibrio general dinámico

Producción e Incertidumbre en equilibrio General Dinámico" recoge, de manera rigurosa aunque eludiendo la excesiva abstracción en el tratamiento, los principales aspectos y cuestiones a tener en cuenta cuando la producción y la incertidumbre son consideradas dentro del Equilibrio general Competitivo. Junto a los resultados ...

Systemic transformation, trade and economic growth

developments, theoretical analysis and empirical results

Since the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEESs) have been involved in the transition process. This book compares the progress of some of these economies in transition and analyses their ...

El crecimiento ecónomico y las artes

Los paises con mayor tradición cultural obvian a menudo el estudio de la Economía de la Cultura. Este ensayo pone de manifiesto la necesidad de cubrir ese vacío. Nosólo porque el análisis de la cultura desde la perspectiva económica contribuye a mejorar la política cultural ...

Desarrollo sostenible en un mundo dinámico

Transformación de instituciones, crecimiento y calidad de vida.

El informe sobre el Desarrollo mundial 2003 examina la relación entre objetivos políticos en competencia -reducir la pobreza, mantener el crecimiento, mejorar la cohesión social y proteger el medio ambiente- en un horizonte de 50 años. El informe observa que se han identificado muchas políticas ...

Economic policy reform

the second stage

The papers and commentary collected here constitute a vital discussion of contemporary thinking on economic policy reform, in particular the difficulties that leave so much of the world seemingly mired in poverty. Distinguished contributors address issues ranging from education and privatization to exchange rates and ...