New directions in regulatory theory

In this edited collection, an international group of contributors to the law of regulation take stock of the collapse of centralized planning and command control regulation which accompanies the downfall of communism. Concerned that subsequent regulatory alternatives have often been prescribed by theorists who have ...

Distribution agreements under the EC compentition rules

This work follows the pattern of her previous books on group exemptions for technology transfer and parallel imports. It examines the regulation on vertical agreements, starting with a chapter on the economic background, before developing, in a series of chapters, a careful analysis of vertical ...

Handbook of telecommunications economics

.Volume 1: Structure, regulation, and competition

The last two decades have seen exceptionally fast rates of change in every aspect of the telecommunications industry. These include major technology changes and the convergence of the broadcasting, information technology and telecommunications industries. The earlier view of telecommunications as a natural monopoly has now ...

Markets, pricing, and deregulation of utilities

Markets, Pricing, and Deregulation of Utilities examines the effects of deregulation on the energy and telecommunications industries in an economic environment that has changed dramatically since deregulation was first introduced in those industries several years ago. The contributors to this book discuss the aspects of ...

Markets, games, and organizations

essays in honor of Roy Radner

The book is a collection of contributed papers in honor of Roy Radner. Reflecting Radner`s broad range of research interests, the papers cover quite diverse areas, ranging over general equilibrium analysis of the market mechanism, economies undergoing transition, satisficing behavior, markets with asymmetric information ...

La explotación de una situación de dependencia económica como supuesto de competencia desleal

Bajo el anterior titulo, Dª Marta Zabaleta Diaz realiza un análisis profundo del supuesto de explotación de una situación de dependencia económica en el ordenamiento jurídico de la competencia. El interés del tema es grande, porque se trata de un supuesto que aun no ha ...

Cost proxy models and telecommunications policy

a new empirical approach to regulation

The telecommunications industry defies easy characterization. The long- distance sector is highly competitive and the local exchange sector much less so, while digital transmission and switching have blurred the distinction between traditional voice communication and the transmission of video and data messages. Regulation of this ...

Differential topology and general equilibrium with complete and incomplete markets

The goal of this publication is to provide basic tools of differential topology to study systems of nonlinear equations, and to apply them to the analysis of general equilibrium models with complete and incomplete markets. The main content of general equilibrium analysis is to study ...

Analyzing modern business cycles

Essays honoring Geoffrey H. Moore

Written by economists influenced by Moore's analysis of business cycles, this collection of 17 essays explores the usefulness of cyclical indicators in economic forecasting and their application to theoretical and policy problems. Topics include the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts, a reassessment of composite indexes ...

Telecomunicaciones y política en EEUU y España (1875-2002)

construyendo mercados

Este libro muestra los cambio que se producen en el mercado de las telecomunicaciones en Estados Unidos y España entre 1875 y 2002. Para hacerlo introduce un marco teórico que en primer lugar posibilita el estudio de los efectos de cambios institucionales y de políticas ...

Making competition work in electricity

As rolling blackouts swept through parts of California in March 2001, it became obvious that the US was potentially in the jaws of its most serious energy shortage since the 1970s. The California crisis was so sudden and severe that it is now prompting policymakers ...

Antitrust and the formation of the postwar world

This text shows how, after World War II, the US sought to impose its antitrust policy on other nations, especially in Europe and Japan. The author Wyatt Wells chronicles how the attack on cartels and monopoly abroad affected everything from energy policy and trade negotiations ...

Media and sovereignty

the global information revolution and its challenge to State Power

Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world ...

Anuario de la competencia 2001

El Anuario de la Competencia 2001 forma parte de una colección iniciada en el año 1996, y que ya tuvo continuidad en los años 1997, 1998, 1999 y 2000. El Anuario de la Competencia cumple esencialmente dos objetivos, promover el debate y la reflexión sobre ...

La macroeconomía del desarrollo

Análisis acerca de la política macroeconómica de los países en vías de desarrollo. Resulta esencial para quienes están relacionados directamente con los programas de estabilización, de ajuste estructural, y de desarrollo económico. Recorrido de temas esenciales como la estructura del mercado, funciones de comportamiento, dirección ...

El desafío de la pobreza

Esta obra plasma el desafio que hoy enfrentan los gobiernos y la sociedad civil en América Latina: La construcción de propuestas de sociedad equitativas y abiertas a la globalización.

Monetary regimes of the twentieth century

Abstract economic theory may be timeless and potentially universal in its application, but macroeconomics has to be seen in its historical context. The nature of the policy regime, the behaviour of the economy and the beliefs of professional economists all interact, and influence each other ...

Transition and institutions

the experience of gradual and late reformers

This volume reviews the role of initial structural and institutional conditions and their subsequent development during the course of the transition and examines economies which are in the very early phases of the reform process.

Markets and moral regulation

Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this 2001 book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a ...

Readings in games and information

This highly original collection brings together contemporary articles from a variety of sources to present the key topics in game theory. The book includes a combination of classic and contemporary readings from a range of books and journals that together present a complete resource for ...