The Microsoft case

antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare

Microsoft was the defining antitrust case of our era, and will be the focus of scholarly discussion about the proper role of antitrust for years to come. This book tells the story of the litigation and shows how law, ideology, evidence, and economic theory influenced ...

Competition, Innovation, and Antitrust

a theory of market leaders and its policy implications

This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. These theories are applied to models of competition in quantities, prices and to ...

Talking prices

symbolic meanings of prices on the market for contemporary art

How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? "Talking Prices" is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers ...

Airline finance

Air transport industry finance, with its complexity and special needs such as route rights, airport slots, aircraft leasing options and frequent flyer programmes, requires specific knowledge. While there are numerous financial management and corporate finance texts available, few of these provide explanations for the singularities ...

Regulatory impact assessment

towards better regulation?

Better state regulation is a key component of economic reform. This is the first book to comprehensively explore international experience in the use of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), which involves assessing the potential benefits and costs of any regulatory change. The authors reveal that RIA ...

Grupo de empresas y Derecho antitrust

La aplicación de las normas anticolusorias en las relaciones intragrupo

Las prácticas colusorias entre empresas representan uno de los fenómenos anticompetitivos más dañinos para el mercado. Por ello, las normativas antitrust nacional y comunitaria prohíben todas aquellas conductas que tengan por objeto, produzcan o puedan producir el efecto de impedir, restringir o falsear la libre ...

Anuario de la competencia 2006

El Anuario de la Competencia 2006 forma parte de una colección iniciada en el año 1996 y que tiene su continuidad en los años posteriores (1997-2005). El Anuario de la Competencia cumple esencialmente dos objetivos: promover el debate y la reflexión sobre la competencia tanto ...

Industrias representativas de América, Europa y Asia

En este texto se hace un recuento de casos empresariales específicos que han hecho que las economías de algunos países tengan un repunte significativo y que los gobiernos de esas naciones den un apoyo económico significativo. El caso asiático es en referencia a la industria ...

European merger control

do we need an efficiency defence?

During its first fifteen years, the EUs merger control system, unlike most others in the world, offered only minimal possibilities for taking efficiency gains into account as a mitigating factor that might offset the anti-competitive effects of a merger. This book examines the background to ...

Vertical markets and cooperative hierarchies

the role of cooperatives in the agri-food industry

"Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies" comprises a selection of sixteen newly written essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives, from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory ...

The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of ...

El comportamiento económico del mercado del petróleo

El petróleo, como mineral físico que es, no se acabará nunca. Un buen día, y por las circustancias que sean, los consumidores no estarán dispuestos a pagar por explorar y desarrollar nuevas reservas de mineral y el mercado se irá reduciendo hasta desaparecer. Seguirá habiendo ...

Monopoly rules

how to find, capture and control the world's most lucrative markets in any business

""Monopoly Rules" provides a really useful framework for sorting strategies that work from those that don't. It is exactly how successful entrepreneurs' minds work." - Alfred R. Berkeley, former president, The NASDAQ Stock Market. Milind Lele shows how to succeed in business by learning the ...

Gas prices in the UK

markets and insecurity of supply

Set in the context of the dramatic increases in the price of gas, which UK gas consumers have had to endure since 2003, this book explores how it is that UK gas industry liberalisation, which once promised ever lower prices, is now being undercut by ...

Innovation markets and competition analysis

EU competition Law and US antitrust Law

#The pace and scope of technological change is increasing, but some innovative technologies take years before they give rise to saleable products. Before they do, there is competition in ideas and research, but the ideas cannot be market tested, because there are no products or ...

Electricity markets

pricing, structures and economics

The relationship between policy objectives, free markets, and the technicalities of electricity production, network flow, supply and consumption, is not a simple one. In this context the book relates electricity market structures, economics for electricity, and derivative pricing of electricity. It is intended as a ...

Regulación, desregulación, liberalización y competencia

La intensidad de la regulación ha aumentado notablemente en España y el proceso de privatización y desregulación en los monopolios naturales ha sido tan intenso que ha cambiado incluso el lenguaje y hoy ya no se habla de monopolios naturales sino de sectores o industrias ...

Regulating utilities and promoting competition

lessons for the future

Regulating Utilities and Promoting Competition continues the series of annual books, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically review the state of utility regulation and competition policy. Contents: Introduction 1. The Future of the Railways in ...

The economics of public utilities

Public utilities supply a set of goods and services that are central to the workings of a modern economy. Their importance in the economy's structure is matched by the interest and complexity of the problems they present for the ecomic analysis. This two-volume set ...

Competencia y regulación en el transporte de viajeros por carretera en España