Growth, industrial organisation and economic generalities

This compedium of essays brings together some of William Baumol's most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Amongst many other ...

Los desafíos de la competitividad

la innovación organizativa y tecnológica de la empresa española

Ed. Emilio Huerta Arribas. Conocer la naturaleza y extensión de los cambios tecnológicos y las innovaciones organizativas, describir las nuevas prácticas de gestión de los recursos humanos, analizar los factores asociados a su implantación y reconocer las estrategias que las empresas españolas utilizan para mejorar ...

A general theory of entrepreneurship

the individual-opportunity nexus

In this volume, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental ...

The principal agent model

the economic theory of incentives

The economics of asymmetric inormation has been the most important new tool of economic analysis and has proved powerful in explaining many aspects of the functioning of the economy.

Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation

Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that conflict arises; the emergence of cooperation, however, is less straightforward and calls for in-depth analysis. Much research is now focused on ...

Análisis del entorno económico de la empresa

Las empresas, los consumidores, los inversores, los políticos y, en general, todos los ciudadanos deben tomar continuamente decisiones económicas que se ven afectadas, en mayor o menor medida, por el grado de dinamismo del entorno económico del país en el que desarrollan sus actividades. En ...

Tecnología e innovación en la empresa

En la década de los años noventa,el papel de la tecnología y la innovación en la competitividad empresarial alcanzó un reconocimiento generalizado,que vino acompañado de una doble preocupación:entender y profundizar el conocimiento de las características del proceso innovador y,en consecuencia,definir ...

The International Handbook of telecommunications economics

.Vol. II: Emerging telecommunications networks

This reference work provides a thorough and up-to-date survey and analysis of recent developments in the economics of telecommunications. The handbooks serve both as a source of reference and technical supplement for the field of telecommunications economics. This reference work provides a thorough and up-to-date ...

The regulation of the pharmaceutical industry

How are pharmaceutical technologies developed and controlled in our societies? To what extent should the availability of these technologies be determined by scientific experts, a democratic state, the interests of final users, or ethical principles? This unique collection brings together the work of social scientists ...

Utility and production

a theory and applications

This microeconomics text presents the traditional economic theories about utility and production, as well as the main alternative theories of consumer and company behaviour. It contains new theoretical functions created from specific optimisation procedures. Moreover, it details clearly the common function expression forms such as ...

The political economy of institutional change in the electricity supply industry

Through a variety of analytical lenses, this text helps fill a gap in the political economy of second-wave, or microeconomic, reforms around the world, and more specifically in the context of the electricity supply industry, where such reforms have been as problematic as they have ...

The economics of hydroelectric power

Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. This work addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric power ...

Controlling market power in telecommunicications

antitrust vs sector-specific regulation

Economic regulation in the telecommunications sector can be performed through economy-wide instruments, such as antitrust law and antitrust authorities, or through sector-specific instruments, such as telecommunications regulation and regulatory authorities. Relying on a comparative analysis of five countries, the present book seeks to shed some ...

Utility privatization and regulation

a fair deal for consumers?

Latin American countries have now privatized a large number of their utility industries and make more use of market approaches to delivery through networks. Privatization has major consequences for efficiency, long-term growth, consumer welfare and income distribution but insufficient attention has been paid to the ...

Antitrust law

economic theory and common law evolution

This book is an effort to consolidate several different perspectives on antitrust law. First, Professor Hylton presents a detailed description of the law as it has developed through numerous judicial opinions. Second, the author presents detailed economic critiques of the judicial opinions, drawing heavily on ...

Traditional telecommunications networks

This reference work provides a thorough and up-to-date survey and analysis of recent developments in the economics of telecommunications. The handbooks serve both as a source of reference and technical supplement for the field of telecommunications economics. Volume I reviews the traditional literature to bring ...

Technological change and the dynamics of industries

theoretical issues and empirical evidence from dutch manufacturing

Technological Change and the Dynamics of Industries focuses on variances in the structural and dynamic properties of manufacturing industries. By exploring the theoretical and empirical literature in industrial economics, by using a longitudinal firm-level database, and by developing and simulating a model on industrial dynamics ...

The New System Competition

Competition between companies tends to be beneficial for the general public, but is this also true for competition between States in a world with global financial markets, low transport costs, and increasing migration? In this book, Hans-Werner Sinn provides an insightful comparison of systems competition ...

The evolution of new markets

How do markets evolve? Why are some innovations picked up straightaway whilst others take years to be commercialized? Are there first-mover advantages? Why do we behave with "irrational exuberance" in the early evolution of markets as was the case with the dot.com boom? Paul ...

The economics of e-commerce

a strategic guide to understanding and designing the online marketplace

Despite the recent misfortunes of many dotcoms, e-commerce will have major and lasting effects on economic activity. But the rise and fall in the valuations of the first wave of e-commerce companies show that vague promises of distant profits are insufficient. Only business models based ...