Introduction to hospitality operations

an indispensable guide to the industry

Water wars

privatization, pollution and profit

The Law and economics of canadian competition policy

Microeconomic change in central and east Europe

Limits and control of competition with a view to international harmonization

Economic regulation and competition

Regulation of services in the EU, Germany and Japan

Microeconomía

consumo y producción

La principal novedad que ofrece este manual es, con toda probabilidad, el hecho de que vaya acompañado de un CD-Rom de consulta interactiva por parte del alumno. Dicho CD-Rom contiene los mismos problemas y cuestiones de test que el libro, si bien ahora las soluciones ...

Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy

a transatlantic prespective

The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same time, both the United States and ...

The foundations of entrepreneurship

Recent changes in the world economy have made the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunity increasingly important to wealth creation. Moreover, as business schools worldwide have embraced the study of entrepreneurship, a conceptual framework for the field is beginning to emerge. This text examines the people who ...

Economic foundations of private law

This reader brings together some seminal papers on law and economics, with special emphasis on the foundational contributions to the economics of property, contracts and torts. The growing influence of these writings in the judicial profession, and in the academic world, underscores the relevance and ...

Competitive solutions

the strategist's toolkit

Table of Contents Preface xiii Preamble xiii Contents xvi What Is Strategy? xviii Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Executive Summary-- Introduction 7 Chapter 2. Industry Analysis 9 The Five Six Forces 9 Entry 11 Buyer Bargaining Power 16 Supplier Bargaining Power 18 Substitute Products ...

New directions in regulatory theory

In this edited collection, an international group of contributors to the law of regulation take stock of the collapse of centralized planning and command control regulation which accompanies the downfall of communism. Concerned that subsequent regulatory alternatives have often been prescribed by theorists who have ...

Distribution agreements under the EC compentition rules

This work follows the pattern of her previous books on group exemptions for technology transfer and parallel imports. It examines the regulation on vertical agreements, starting with a chapter on the economic background, before developing, in a series of chapters, a careful analysis of vertical ...

Markets, pricing, and deregulation of utilities

Markets, Pricing, and Deregulation of Utilities examines the effects of deregulation on the energy and telecommunications industries in an economic environment that has changed dramatically since deregulation was first introduced in those industries several years ago. The contributors to this book discuss the aspects of ...

Handbook of telecommunications economics

.Volume 1: Structure, regulation, and competition

The last two decades have seen exceptionally fast rates of change in every aspect of the telecommunications industry. These include major technology changes and the convergence of the broadcasting, information technology and telecommunications industries. The earlier view of telecommunications as a natural monopoly has now ...

Markets, games, and organizations

essays in honor of Roy Radner

The book is a collection of contributed papers in honor of Roy Radner. Reflecting Radner`s broad range of research interests, the papers cover quite diverse areas, ranging over general equilibrium analysis of the market mechanism, economies undergoing transition, satisficing behavior, markets with asymmetric information ...

La explotación de una situación de dependencia económica como supuesto de competencia desleal

Bajo el anterior titulo, Dª Marta Zabaleta Diaz realiza un análisis profundo del supuesto de explotación de una situación de dependencia económica en el ordenamiento jurídico de la competencia. El interés del tema es grande, porque se trata de un supuesto que aun no ha ...

Cost proxy models and telecommunications policy

a new empirical approach to regulation

The telecommunications industry defies easy characterization. The long- distance sector is highly competitive and the local exchange sector much less so, while digital transmission and switching have blurred the distinction between traditional voice communication and the transmission of video and data messages. Regulation of this ...

Analyzing modern business cycles

Essays honoring Geoffrey H. Moore

Written by economists influenced by Moore's analysis of business cycles, this collection of 17 essays explores the usefulness of cyclical indicators in economic forecasting and their application to theoretical and policy problems. Topics include the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts, a reassessment of composite indexes ...

Governing telecommunications and the new information society in Europe

The authors debate the successes and failures of European strategies and policies engaged to foster the new IT based economic revolution, and European multilevel policy-making