Gas prices in the UK

markets and insecurity of supply

Set in the context of the dramatic increases in the price of gas, which UK gas consumers have had to endure since 2003, this book explores how it is that UK gas industry liberalisation, which once promised ever lower prices, is now being undercut by ...

Monopoly rules

how to find, capture and control the world's most lucrative markets in any business

""Monopoly Rules" provides a really useful framework for sorting strategies that work from those that don't. It is exactly how successful entrepreneurs' minds work." - Alfred R. Berkeley, former president, The NASDAQ Stock Market. Milind Lele shows how to succeed in business by learning the ...

Innovation markets and competition analysis

EU competition Law and US antitrust Law

#The pace and scope of technological change is increasing, but some innovative technologies take years before they give rise to saleable products. Before they do, there is competition in ideas and research, but the ideas cannot be market tested, because there are no products or ...

Electricity markets

pricing, structures and economics

The relationship between policy objectives, free markets, and the technicalities of electricity production, network flow, supply and consumption, is not a simple one. In this context the book relates electricity market structures, economics for electricity, and derivative pricing of electricity. It is intended as a ...

Regulación, desregulación, liberalización y competencia

La intensidad de la regulación ha aumentado notablemente en España y el proceso de privatización y desregulación en los monopolios naturales ha sido tan intenso que ha cambiado incluso el lenguaje y hoy ya no se habla de monopolios naturales sino de sectores o industrias ...

Regulating utilities and promoting competition

lessons for the future

Regulating Utilities and Promoting Competition continues the series of annual books, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically review the state of utility regulation and competition policy. Contents: Introduction 1. The Future of the Railways in ...

Análisis económico de la liberalización del transporte aéreo

efectos sobre el sistema aeroportuario de Andalucía (1986-2001)

La transformación que ha experimentado el mercado del transporte aéreo a lo largo del siglo XX, tanto en dimensiones como en regulación, se ha visto plasmada en gran diversidad de publicaciones que han revelado el especial interés de la economía del transporte aéreo como materia ...

The economics of public utilities

Public utilities supply a set of goods and services that are central to the workings of a modern economy. Their importance in the economy's structure is matched by the interest and complexity of the problems they present for the ecomic analysis. This two-volume set ...

Competencia y regulación en el transporte de viajeros por carretera en España

Mergers and acquisitions

the innovation impact

#The volume provides provocative new insights into the dynamic relationship between two of the most strategic priorities for 21st century firms: technological innovation and M&As. It does so by bringing together in a novel way the literature on these two different areas of firm ...

Future electricity technologies and systems

Where will our electricity come from in the future, and how will we use it? The UK is aiming for a 60% reduction of 1990 carbon dioxide emission levels by 2050, yet the electricity industry and patterns of electricity use must change radically if this ...

Strategy, economic organization, and the knowledge economy

the coordination of firms and resources

The rise of the knowledge economy has far-reaching implications for the nature of economic organization as well as firm strategy. Not surprisingly, thinking in management studies as well as in economics has been profoundly affected by these changes. Thus, management thinking in particular has been ...

The economics and regulation of financial privacy

an international comparison of credit reporting systems

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the economics and regulation of financial privacy. It is an international comparison of credit reporting systems in the United States and in European countries. On the theoretical level the book explains competition in information markets, especially in ...

Lectures on antitrust economics

This is an account of the economics behind antitrust law, discussing recent developments in the areas of price fixing, horizontal mergers, and exclusionary vertical contracts. Antitrust law regulates economic activity, but differs in its operation from what is traditionally considered "regulation." Where regulation is often ...

Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness

new data on the use of patents by Universities, small firms and individual inventors

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries# technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to #not-for-profit# entities ...

Competitive failures in insurance markets

theory and policy implications

Leading international economists offer new insights on recent developments in the economic analysis of the limits of insurability, with particular attention of adverse selection and moral hazard. Risk sharing is a cornerstone of modern economies. It is valuable to risk-averse consumers and essential for investment ...

International handbook on economic regulation

Michael Crew and David Parker have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. With contributions from international specialists in economic regulation, the Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of major developments in both the theory and ...

Industrial organization and the digital economy

This book looks at theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries. Digital technology has dramatically changed the structure of many industrial sectors. The rise of the ...

The economics of vertically differentiated markets

This original new book offers a comprehensive and engaging perspective on the theory of vertical differentiation. It enables the reader to grasp the key concepts and effects that product quality has both on firms# behaviour and market structure, and the ways in which this relationship ...

International competitiveness and technological change

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. Public research funding and business strategy dictate to a significant extent the manner in, and extent to which innovation occurs ...