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 ...

Differential topology and general equilibrium with complete and incomplete markets

The goal of this publication is to provide basic tools of differential topology to study systems of nonlinear equations, and to apply them to the analysis of general equilibrium models with complete and incomplete markets. The main content of general equilibrium analysis is to study ...

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

Making competition work in electricity

As rolling blackouts swept through parts of California in March 2001, it became obvious that the US was potentially in the jaws of its most serious energy shortage since the 1970s. The California crisis was so sudden and severe that it is now prompting policymakers ...

Antitrust and the formation of the postwar world

This text shows how, after World War II, the US sought to impose its antitrust policy on other nations, especially in Europe and Japan. The author Wyatt Wells chronicles how the attack on cartels and monopoly abroad affected everything from energy policy and trade negotiations ...

Beyond rules in society and business

This provocative new book challenges traditional tenets about behavioral regulation in society as well as in business. Verner Petersen asserts that attempts to solve ethical problems by creating explicit guidelines, codes and rules discourage individual reflection and responsibility. Likewise, attempts to put important aspects of ...

Media and sovereignty

the global information revolution and its challenge to State Power

Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world ...

Anuario de la competencia 2001

El Anuario de la Competencia 2001 forma parte de una colección iniciada en el año 1996, y que ya tuvo continuidad en los años 1997, 1998, 1999 y 2000. El Anuario de la Competencia cumple esencialmente dos objetivos, promover el debate y la reflexión sobre ...

Markets and moral regulation

Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this 2001 book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a ...

Introducción a la economía

Libro de prácticas. Microeconomía

Este Libro de Prácticas es el complemento natural del manual de Introducción a la Economía: Microeconomía de los mismos autores que coordinan este trabajo. Pero es también aplicable a cualquiera de los muchos manuales de introducción que se utilizan en el mercado. El libro pretende ...

Precios y oligopolio

ideas clásicas y herramientas modernas

El "problema del oligopolio", es decir, la cuestión de cómo se forman los precios en un mercado con pocos competidores, es uno de los problemas clásicos de la historia del pensamiento económico. En este libro el autor aplica un enfoque moderno, basado en teoría de ...

Problemas resueltos de microeconomia IV

Principles of Microeconomics

For the Third Edition, 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz joins forces with new coauthor Carl Walsh, who brings both macroeconomic expertise and teaching savvy to the project. Together, Stiglitz and Walsh thoroughly integrate contemporary economics into the traditional curriculum. Since the publication of Economics, Second ...

Microéconomie de l´incertain

Risques et décisions. Manuel et exercices corrigés.

Advanced microeconomic theory

This rigorous, up-to-date text on modern microeconomic theory presents all of the core mathematics, neoclassical theory, game theory, and information economics needed to access the modern professional literature. Complex theory is patiently and carefully developed, then clearly explained and illustrated because even well-prepared students benefit ...

R&D, education and productivity

a retrospective

Toward a comparative institutional analysis

Markets are one of the most salient institutions produced by humans, and economists have traditionally analyzed the workings of the market mechanism. Recently, however, economists and others have begun to appreciate the many institution-related events and phenomena that have a significant impact on economic performance ...