The dynamics of the price structure and the business cycle

the Italian evidence from 1945-2000

By exploring the price dynamics and business cycle of the Italian economy with reference to the most important international events, this text sheds new light on the country's current situation. Using a long- term analytical framework underpinned by principal theoretical approaches, the analysis places ...

Decentralised power generation in the liberalised EU energy markets

results from the DECENT Research Project

The book gives a comprehensive overview of technologies for decentralised power generation (DG technologies), including those based on both renewable energy sources (RES), and on combined heat and power (CHP) technologies, and of relevant policies of the EU and its Member States. Special attention is ...

Agricultural product prices

In an excellent synthesis of theory and measurement as they relate to agricultural prices, William G. Tomek and Kenneth L. Robinson set out principles for understanding the operation of markets for agricultural products. This heavily revised and updated edition of a classic in the field ...

Market-driven politics

neoliberal democracy and the public interest

Market-Driven Politics is a multi-level study, moving between an analysis of global economic forces through national politics to the changes occurring week by week in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyone#television broadcasting and health care. Public ...

Transport pricing of electricity network

Economía industrial

un enfoqie estratégico

A lo largo de este libro se analiza lo que sucede cuando las empresas poseen una cierta libertad para fijar el precio (poder de mercado). No sólo se limita a lo que acontece a los mercados de productos manufacturados, sino que abarca, asimismo, los servicios ...

Trattato di diritto amministrativo

.Vol. 34: Le privatizzazioni in Europa

Il volume si propone una approfondita analisi del fenomeno delle privatizzazioni sviluppatosi in Europa nelgli ultimi anni, con particolare riguardo alle esperienze registrate in Germania, Francia, Inghilterra e Spagna. L'opera si suddivide, così, in quattro parti, una per ogni ordinamento indagato. In ciascuna delle ...

La industria de defensa

el desfase tecnológico entre la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos de América

Cuando estas líneas lleguen al lector, los resultados de las cumbres europeas de diciembre del 2013 y junio del 2015 estarán presentes sólo en las mentes de unos pocos expertos del sector y del puñado de personas que, por razones profesionales, estén obligados al seguimiento ...

Competition, monopoly and corporate governance

essays in honour of Keith Cowling

INDICE -Internationalisation, trans-nationalism and technical change: coordination and hierarchy in the Japanese firm - the strategic decision making approach vs Aioi, Dan Coffey and Philip R. Tomlinson -Multinationals and labour - evidence from the international acquisition of UK firms, Martin J. Conyon et al -Financial constraints on ...

Managed care and monopoly power

the antitrust challenge

As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals ...

The evolutionary analysis of economic policy

#This study is a pioneering effort to attempt to integrate evolutionary and economic theory in order to have a better understanding of the way in which political, economic and social systems evolve over time. The result is an exciting series of essays exploring the various ...

La innovación tecnológica en las organizaciones

El libro se divide en cuatro partes: 1º) Fundamentos de la innovación 2º) Estrategia e innovación Se analiza la innovación tecnológica en las pequeñas y medianas empresas y se presenta el concepto de alianza empresarial y su influencia en la estrategia de innovación de las ...

Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Economic behavior and legal institutions

an introductory survey

Markets would not function unless supported by a legal framework. That framework is no self-contained, exogenous structure; it has evolved in response to the demands of economic activity. There are laws made to influence or modify market behaviour, in an attempt to produce the desired ...

The SMS blackwell handbook of organizational capabilities

emergence, developement, and change

How do the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time? This handbook brings together scholars of strategic management, economics, history, organizational theory, international business, and technology management in order to address this question. Many of the contributions present new theoretical or empirical ...

Innovation and knowledge creation in an open economy

canadian industry and international implications

This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation of Canadian manufacturing firms. Attention is paid to the different actors in the system, who both compete with and complement one another ...

Influencia del modelo de gestión y de la política tarifaria en la competitividad de los puertos

Este libro pretende continuar con el proceso de conocimiento de los mecanismos que rigen en los puertos españoles, analizando tanto los factores relevantes de competencia entre ellos como las relaciones entre los modelos de titularidad, gestión y las políticas tarifarias. Para ello se identifican los ...

Spectrum auctions and competition in telecommunications

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and ...

Rethinking rights and regulations

institutional responses to new communications technologies

The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post- bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)-- traditionally a showcase for the best ...

Software ecosystem

understanding an indispensable technology and industry

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are ...