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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Competencia y regulación

un análisis de la OPA de gas natural sobre Endesa

El estudio responde a un esfuerzo interdisciplinar, y está animado por el propósito de proporcionar una perspectiva académica al debate que se suscitó en España tras la OPA lanzada por Gas Natural sobre Endesa el 5 de septiembre de 2005. Los autores, a quienes une ...

The State after statism

new State activities in the age of liberalization

This book assesses the changing nature of state intervention in the economies of the affluent democracies. Against a widespread understanding that contemporary developments, such as globalization and new technologies, are pressing for a rollback of state regulation in the economy, the book shows that these ...

Ayudas públicas y libre competencia en el sector audiovisual

En el presente libro se parte, en primer lugar de las especiales características de los medios audiovisuales, ya que a través de ellos se ejercen los derechos fundamentales reconocidos en el art. 20.1 de la Constitución Española, libertad de expresión y derecho a comunicar ...

Economics of sports

Why does the sport industry operate as it does? Why do governments in some countries directly support sport programs facilities and athletes while other governments do not? Why does a pair of basketball shoes cost GBP100? Why can some sport organisations operate as monopolists to ...

Energía en España y desafío europeo

seguridad, concentración empresarial, competencia, regulación

Ha venido determinado por dos hechos que tuvieron lugar hace ahora un año: la publicación por Ignacio Pérez Arriaga y su equipo del Libro Blanco sobre el sector eléctrico 1 a finales de julio de 2005 y el lanzamiento de una OPA de Gas Natural ...

Industria y cultura

Dana Borojovich expone en esta obra la importancia de la actual política agro-ganadera común en el mercosur y enumera sus ventajas. En este sentido, analiza también el desequilibrio existente entre la Unión Europea y los países subsidiarios, con los menores recursos. Alejandro Capato destaca en ...

La manzana de Blancanieves

salud, industria y alimentación

Los aditivos dañinos, los pesticidas tóxicos, los productos radiolíticos producidos en los alimentos por el proceso de la irradiación y los riesgos de las nuevas proteínas en los alimentos alterados genéticamente son los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis de la alimentación que rebajan la calidad de ...

Carbon and its domestication

Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its biogeochemical cycle has been a mainstay of development. This domestication is characterized by a number of thresholds: control of ...

The entertainment industry

It's hard to imagine a day passing without most people enjoying some form of entertainment, whether it's going to a football match, watching television, or listening to the radio. At the start of the twentieth century, however, the only form of public entertainment ...

Comunicación, periodismo y control informativo

Estados unidos, Europa y España

¿Qué ha ocurrido en los últimos años con los grandes imperios comunicativos y qué realidad rodea actualmente a los medios y a los periodistas que en ellos trabajan? Desde una perspectiva crítica, el presente trabajo describe y analiza los principales grupos de comunicación a nivel ...

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 ...

Essays on transport economics

This book covers the basic analytical methods used in transportation economics and policy analysis. Encompassing fields of economics such as Industrial Organisation, Welfare Economics, General Equilibrium Theory and Input-Output-Analysis, the study of transport from an economic point of view serves as a test bench for ...

Transporte aéreo e ingeniería aeroportuaria

INDICE: Introducción. Organización del sistema aeronáutico. Economía del mercado aeronáutico. Aerolíneas de bajo coste. Gestión y explotación aeroportuaria. El sistema aeroportuaria. Área de movimiento. Servidumbres aeronáuticas. Las pistas: aspectos técnicos. Área terminal.

Government failure versus market failure

microeconomic policy research and government performance

When should government intervene in market activity and when is it best to let market forces take their natural course? How does the existing empirical evidence about government performance guide our answers to these questions? In this clear, concise book, Clifford Winston offers his innovative ...

Performance measurement and regulation of network utilities

This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today. The contributors to the book - researchers from academia, regulatory agencies and consulting firms - address the use of efficiency measures in price regulation and ...