The economics of entrepreneurship

This authoritative volume presents key previously published articles which have shaped the literature and which continue to influence research on the economics of entrepreneurship. The editor has selected theoretical, descriptive, policy-orientated and empirical contributions, which analyse the economic structure of entrepreneurship. The book will be ...

Microeconomía

enfoque de negocios

Este libro surge como una respuesta ante la necesidad de transformar el entorno teórico y práctico de la Microeconomía. Proporciona los conocimientos necesarios para comprender la realidad económica en que vivimos y ofrece fundamentos sólidos para el adecuado desempeño empresarial. El propósito de la obra ...

Economía y organización de empresas para arquitectura técnica

con teoría y problemas resueltos

INDICE: Microeconomía. Organización de empresas. Inversión y amortización.

European merger control

do we need an efficiency defence?

During its first fifteen years, the EUs merger control system, unlike most others in the world, offered only minimal possibilities for taking efficiency gains into account as a mitigating factor that might offset the anti-competitive effects of a merger. This book examines the background to ...

Vertical markets and cooperative hierarchies

the role of cooperatives in the agri-food industry

"Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies" comprises a selection of sixteen newly written essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives, from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory ...

The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of ...

El comportamiento económico del mercado del petróleo

El petróleo, como mineral físico que es, no se acabará nunca. Un buen día, y por las circustancias que sean, los consumidores no estarán dispuestos a pagar por explorar y desarrollar nuevas reservas de mineral y el mercado se irá reduciendo hasta desaparecer. Seguirá habiendo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...