The economics of energy efficiency

barriers to cost-effective investment

The politics of regulation

institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of ...

Global governance of drug and pharmaceutical industries

transatlantic, trilateral and multilateral policy cooperation for drug safety

The recultion of drug safety and the governance of globalization in the pharmaceutical industry present growing challenges for govermments, the viotechnology sector and civil society. Currently, regulation and policy is driven by the interests of industrialized nations. However recent conflicts over patents, generics, and emerging ...

Empirical industrial organization

This two volume collection presents the most important recent articles on empirical issues in industrial organization, related primirily to analysis of imperfect competition.

How cartels endure and how they fail

studies of industrial collusion

#This book is about one of the most elusive problems in industrial organization # why some collusive agreements flourish while others fail. It brings together, in one place, much of the best recent work in the literature on this topic. I think the book will become ...

Knowledge and competitive advantage

the coevolution of firms, technology and national institutions

Energy security

managing risk in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment

This volume examines energy security in a privatized, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market, in which the concept of sustainability has developed together with a higher awareness of environmental issues, but where the potential for supply disruptions, price fluctuation, and threats to infrastructure safety must ...

Manufacturing culture

the institutional geography of industrial practice

Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process ...

The challenges of privatization

an international analysis

This book provides the first systematic empirical analysis of privatization processes worldwide to explain how and why governments privatize, and whether privatization has proved successful or not. Privatization is shown to be a difficult process, shaped by political preferences and budgetary constraints, often pursued in ...

Efficient monopolies

the limits of competition in the European property insurance market

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market. It provides an empirical comparison of the property insurance market in five European countries: Britain, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. The market and cost structures of insurers in each ...

Un mercado para la electricidad

¿Liberalización o regulación?

Droit public de la régulation économique

La mondialisation des flux économiques et l'irruption de la concurence dans le fonctionnement des services publics mettent profondément en cause les relations entre l'Etat et le marché. Depuis une dizaine d'années, le droit public économique est particulièrement le théâtre de ces évolutions ...

Regulation in the States

The book is describing technological developments as well as urban futures in the information age where the development of ICT sets the pace and options. Despite this dynamic development, the book describes how stabile daily travelling still is and highlights the achievable impacts and acceptability ...

The economics of sport

An international perspective

This text, by three distinguished authors, applies the theories and techniques of economic analysis to sport and topics related to the business of sport. It builds on a basis of introductory microeconomics and continues the discussion, generally at an intermediate standard. The text has an ...

The economics of anti-trust and regulation in telecommunications

perspectives for the new European regulatory framework

Competition and efficiency in a Unified European Banking Market

Fundamentals of power system economics

The introduction of competition into the electricity supply industry has fundamentally changed the way it works. In light of these changes this book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of the basic principles underpinning the design and operation of modern competitive electricity markets. Assuming no ...

Power switch

energy regulatory governance in the twenty-first century

Market dominance and antitrust policy

Market dominance # encompassing single firm dominance, overt and tacit collusion, mergers and vertical restraints # raises many complex analytical and policy issues, all of which continue to be the subject of theoretical research and policy reform. This second edition of a popular and comprehensive text extends ...

Las cooperativas de distribución farmacéutica en España

diferencias con otros mayoristas