Information rules

a strategic guide to the network economy

Information Goods - from movies and music to software code and stock quotes - have supplanted industrial goods as the key drivers of world markets. Confronted by this New Economy, many instinctively react by searching for a corresponding New Economics to guide their business decisions. Executives charged ...

The economics of sports broadcasting

Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today's lucrative international market. This new textbook explains the economics underlying the sports broadcasting phenomenon. The specific regulatory culture governing sports broadcasting means that the financial economy of this area has ...

Concurrence pour le marché et concurrence dans le marché

L'essai de Chadwick (1800-1890), intitulé Effets de quelques principes de législation et d'administration en Europe : de la concurrence pour le marché, comparée à la concurrence dans le marché, porte sur la gestion des services d'intérêt général. En tant que réformateur social, l ...

The EC Law of competition

Faull and Nikpay

The new edition of this leading work builds upon the success of the first edition by adding new chapters on modernization, cartels, state aids, and motor vehicle distribution agreements, as well as expanding the analysis of mergers. The existing strengths are also reinforced, and the ...

Global airlines

competition in a transnational industry

"Global Airlines: Competition in a Transnational Industry" presents an overview of the changing scene in air transport covering current issues such as security, no frills airlines, open skies agreements, the outcome of the recent downturn in economic activity and the emergence of transnational airlines, and ...

Electricity market reform

an international perspective

Since the late 1980s, policy makers and regulators in a number of countries have liberalized, restructured or deregulated their electric power sector, typically by introducing competition at the generation and retail level. These experiments have resulted in vastly different outcomes - some highly encouraging, others utterly ...

Liberalization of the postal and delivery sector

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest as the delivery sector undergoes rapid change and the debate on liberalization rages. This compendium of original essays has been selected from papers presented at the Rutgers University CRRI 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics ...

The myth of japanese efficiency

the world car industry in a globalizating age

Combining case studies with accessible but rigorous production models and historical background, this provocative book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a myth ...

The economic regulation of broadcasting markets

evolving technology and challenges for policy

New technology is revolutionizing broadcasting markets. As the cost of bandwidth processing and delivery fall, information-intensive services that once bore little economic relationship to each other are now increasingly related as substitutes or complements. Television, newspapers, telecoms and the internet compete ever more fiercely for ...

Energy for 21t Century

a comprehensive guide to conventional and alternative sources

As concerns over rising energy prices and potential shortages continue to grow, this comprehensive handbook provides a detailed analysis of the past, present, and future of all the principle energy sources - biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, hydro and nuclear power - as well as sustainable sources ...

The Euroepan Union and culture

between economic regulation and european cultural policy

"The European Union and Culture" explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector - understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed ...

Utility regulation in competitive markets

problems and progress

"Utility Regulation in Competitive Markets" is the latest book in the annual series published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically reviews the state of utility regulation and competition policy. This significant new volume contains incisive chapters ...

Airline choices for the future

from alliances to Mergers

"Airline Choices for the Future: From Alliances to Mergers" offers an up-to-date assessment of the industry as it stands today, delivering a comprehensive insight into how the world of airline alliances is changing, and how the merger phenomenon is likely to fit into the new ...

La liberalización de las telecomunicaciones en la Unión Europea

Los mercados de telecomunicaciones estuvieron hasta los años ochenta en manos de las autoridades estatales. Constituían mercados monopolísticos u ostentaban importantes derechos especiales que delimitaban unos mercados ajenos a cualquier injerencia competitiva. Cuando surge la necesidad de abrirlos a la competencia, en un panorama de ...

Externalidades de red en la economía digital

introducción a la modelización de mercados de redes mediantes la teoría de sistemas dinámicos

En mercados de redes, el valor de un producto o servicio para un usuario no sólo depende del producto o servicio para un usuario no sólo depende del producto en sí mismo, sino del número de usuarios que utilizan dicho producto. Esto hace que el ...

La libre concurrence en procès

Le dogme libéral selon lequel la concurrence serait un stimulant indispensable pour notre économie est en train de s'effondrer. Bien que la concurrence soit une réalité incontournable dans une économie de marché, l'expérience montre qu'elle est nuisible pour la grande majorité des ...

Lawlessness and economics

alternative modes of governance

How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In "Lawlessness and Economics", Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions ...

Industry and firm studies

The fourth edition of this acclaimed text is a rich resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial organization, applied game theory, and management strategy. It incorporates game theory into industry analysis by studying the behavior of successful and failing firms as well as the ...

Privatization experiences in the European Union

Experts evaluate the varied outcomes of privatization experiences in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. The trend toward privatization, which began with privatization experiments in the UK under Margaret Thatcher and the deregulation of the telecommunications sector in ...

Políticas para la competitividad

una experiencia de gobierno

¿Qué debe hacerse para fomentar la competitividad? Lamentablemente, entre lo que hay que hacer y lo que es realizable en la práctica hay un buen trecho. Es fácil pontificar sobre la manera de #fomentar la innovación#. Pero, ¿cómo traducirlo a políticas y programas concretos? Este ...