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 ...

Pricing communication services

economics, technology and modelling

Recent advances in technology, combined with the deregulation of the telecommunication market and the proliferation of the Internet, have created a highly competitive environment for communication service providers. There is no simple recipe for pricing network service contracts in all contexts. Pricing is a complex ...

Competition and regulation in utility markets

This volume is part of an annual series, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which provides an up-to-date review of the state of utility regulation in Britain, with some relevant overseas comparisons. The book, edited and with ...

Competition policy for small market economies

For the most part, competition policy literature has focused on large economies. Yet the economic paradigms on which such policies are based do not necessarily apply to small market economies. This book demonstrates that optimal competition policy is very much dependent on the size of ...

International handbook on privatization

#The challenges of privatization are well described in this International Handbook. On the theoretical side, market efficiency gains are shown to be balanced with agency and market failure losses. Empirically, a wide range of case studies offer many lessons on best practices. The book should ...

Energy in a competitive market

essays in honour of Colin Robinson

#This is a stimulating, informative and remarkably varied collection of papers. It illustrates the great diversity of topics and analytic techniques that characterise the modern competitive energy sector. The papers are a testament to the distinguished and consistent contributions that Colin Robinson has made to ...

Il mercato delle telecomunicazioni

dal monopolio delle telecomunicazioni alla liberalizzazione negli Stati Uniti e nell'UE

Nel volume sono analizzati gli effetti della liberalizzazione del mercato delle telecomunicazioni nei principali paesi industrializzati - Stati Uniti e Unione Europea - con specifica attenzione al caso italiano. Seguendo un'impostazione economico-istituzionale, gli autori forniscono da un lato un'aggiornata esposizione delle caratteristiche dei diversi mercati ...

The economics of schooling and school quality

#Does education cause economic growth? Is education a kind of human capital formation? The human investment revolution in economic thought started in earnest over 40 years ago and then seemed to peter out in the 1970s and 80s. More recently, it has taken off again ...

On creating competition and strategic restructuring

regulatory reform in public utilities

#The introductory chapter by the editors is extremely wide-ranging and therefore very useful for any reader not yet introduced to the manifold intricacies of this topic. What is remarkable about this chapter is that three aspects are dealt with at the same time: the driving ...

International airlines alliances

EC competition law/US antitrust law and international air transport

A clear introduction to the background and origin of airline alliances, detailed analysis and comparison of relevant EC competition law and US antitrust law, and possible solutions for the harmonisation of different applications of competition law to international airline alliances INDICE Chapter 1: Relevant Background ...

Communications in EU antitrust law

market power and public interest

Approaching the theme from an antitrust perspective and focusing on telecommunications and television broadcasting, this volume examines how traditional European competition law doctrines and principles can be applied to this converging sector. The application of antitrust rules to the communications sector is often one of ...

Globalization or regionalization of the American and Asian can industry?

The automobile sector is one of the most archetypal global industries and is seen by many as one of the main drivers behind the homogenisation of world markets due to firms' internationalization strategies and the social practices that firms impose. This book argues that this ...

Corporate aftershock

the public policy lessons from the collapse of Enron and other major corporations

"The greatest tragedy of the Enron debacle is not likely to be the consequences of its bankruptcy, but from the erroneous institutional reforms that will take hold if its causes are not well understood. This thorough and thoughtful set of essays touches on all aspects ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...