The economics of banking

"The Economics of Banking" describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to ...

La actividad emprendedora

empresas y empresarios en España, 1997-2006

Esta obra es el resultado del Segundo Informe sobre la actividad emprendedora en España promovido por la Fundación Rafael del Pino. Los autores enfatizan en las características y determinantes de dicha actividad emprendedora y explotan, por primera vez, la creatividad -schumpeteriana- de los nuevos empresarios ...

Production economics

integrateing the microeconomic and engineering perspectives

A production economist focuses on assessment, and will use an aggregate description of technology to answer such questions as: How does the firm compare to its competitors? Has the firm improved its production capabilities? A production engineer focuses on optimizing resources, and will use a ...

The Megacorp and Oligopoly

micro foundations of macro dynamics

This book provides both an explanation of the inflation which has bedeviled economic policy in the West since the end of World War II and a micro-economic theory to purge Keynesian models of the Walrasian strain derived from Marshall's Principles. By focusing on what ...

Nuevas estrategias de gestión en la economía de innovación

En este libro se muestra la evolución histórica de la gestión de la innovación, sus fundamentos teóricos más relevantes, el impacto que ésta ha generado sobre el comercio internacional y en la definición de estrategias empresariales. Mientras que la ciencia se ha dado a la ...

The economics of benchmarking

measuring performance for competitive advantage

"ten Raa" presents the techniques and theory of this popular business tool to explain how performance indices and rankings are developed and used to improve efficiency, productivity and profitability. The book presents a lucid exposition of a popular business tool. It is accessible to readers ...

Pricing in road transport

a multi-disciplinaru perspective

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book ...

Ec competition Law

Written with competition law students in mind. Monti sets out economic concepts in a non-technical manner and explores the policy dimension of competition law by referring to key cases and contemporary policy initiatives.

Global price fixing

The book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. It provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. A deeper understanding of the phenomenon is afforded by intensive case studies of collusion in ...

The Red Queen among organizations

how competitiveness evolves

There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all ...

The digital economy

business organization, production processes and regional developments

Information technologies (IT) shape economic space, but we have no clear map of the cyber economy since the "digital revolution" began in the early 1970s. "The Digital Economy" offers an up-to-date, critical synthesis that links the various aspects of the digital or cyber economy from ...

Mergers and merger remedies in the EU

assessing the cosequences for competition

Headlines are made when the European Commission prohibits a merger, but this is actually very rare. Clearances subject to conditions (i.e. remedies) happen ten times as frequently, but have received far less attention in academic literature. This book provides an empirical assessment of the ...

Law and capitalism

what corporate crises reveal about legal systems and economic development around the world

Recent high-profile corporate scandals#such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan#demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law and Capitalism examines ...

Principles of microeconomics

For the Fourth Edition, 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co- author Carl Walsh thoroughly integrate contemporary economics into the traditional curriculum. Since the publication of "Principles of Microeconomics, Second Edition," in 1997, the explosive development of information technologies has altered the economic landscape in ...

Economic evolution and equilibrium

bridging the Gap

This work uses various model frameworks to study the evolution of equilibria in an open loop evolving economy in which the model characteristics evolve without any directional restrictions except for continuity. Applying mathematical methods, it is shown that equilibria can always be adapted in a ...

Microeconomía

mercados de productos y de factores productivos

Handbook of industrial organization. Volume 3

Cuadernos de economía y dirección de la empresa, Nº32, año 2007

Microeconomía avanzada

cuestiones y ejercicios resueltos

El libro se estructura en once capítulos que abarcan los siguientes temas: teoría del consumo, teoría de la empresa, equilibrio general y economía del bienestar y elección individual con incertidumbre.

Theory and applications of intermediate mocroeconomis

This book is written as an upper level undergraduate text for students who have taken a principles of economics course. The text is also appropriate for MBA programs.