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 ...

Telecomunicaciones y política en EEUU y España (1875-2002)

construyendo mercados

Este libro muestra los cambio que se producen en el mercado de las telecomunicaciones en Estados Unidos y España entre 1875 y 2002. Para hacerlo introduce un marco teórico que en primer lugar posibilita el estudio de los efectos de cambios institucionales y de políticas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

R&D, education and productivity

a retrospective

Competition in telecommunications

In Competition in Telecommunications, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political economy, and the economics of incentives. The book opens with background information for the reader who ...

Foundations of organizational strategy

In this volume, Michael Jensen and his collaborators present the foundations of an integrated theory of organizations. The theory assumes that organizations are equilibrium systems that, like markets, can be influenced, but cannot be told what to do; that human beings are rational and self-interested ...

Organización industrial para la estrategia empresarial

El estudio de la estrategia de las empresas ha ido evolucionando. La que alguna vez fuera una disciplina que carecía de bases analíticas sólidas y que sólo se fundaba en la indagación de la experiencia, en la intuición y en algunas generalizaciones obtenidas de análisis ...

Microeconomics of market failures

In this book Bernard Salanie studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to remedy these so-called market failures. He includes discussions of theories of collective decision making, as well as elementary models of public economics and industrial ...

El dominio de la información

una guía estratégica para la economía de la red

Los bienes de información, desde las películas y la música al software y a las cotizaciones de bolsa han sustituido los bienes industriales como motores claves de la economía mundial. Enfrentados a esta Economía Nueva muchos buscan instintivamente una Metodología Económica Nueva como guía de ...

Markt, Macht, Wettbewerb

meine Erfahrungen als Kommissar in Brüssel

The antitrust paradox

a policy at war with itself

The new industrial organization

market forces and strategic behavior