Industrial organization and the digital economy

This book looks at theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries. Digital technology has dramatically changed the structure of many industrial sectors. The rise of the ...

International competitiveness and technological change

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. Public research funding and business strategy dictate to a significant extent the manner in, and extent to which innovation occurs ...

The economics and regulation of financial privacy

an international comparison of credit reporting systems

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the economics and regulation of financial privacy. It is an international comparison of credit reporting systems in the United States and in European countries. On the theoretical level the book explains competition in information markets, especially in ...

Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness

new data on the use of patents by Universities, small firms and individual inventors

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries# technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to #not-for-profit# entities ...

International handbook on economic regulation

Michael Crew and David Parker have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. With contributions from international specialists in economic regulation, the Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of major developments in both the theory and ...

The economics of vertically differentiated markets

This original new book offers a comprehensive and engaging perspective on the theory of vertical differentiation. It enables the reader to grasp the key concepts and effects that product quality has both on firms# behaviour and market structure, and the ways in which this relationship ...

Competencia y regulación

un análisis de la OPA de gas natural sobre Endesa

El estudio responde a un esfuerzo interdisciplinar, y está animado por el propósito de proporcionar una perspectiva académica al debate que se suscitó en España tras la OPA lanzada por Gas Natural sobre Endesa el 5 de septiembre de 2005. Los autores, a quienes une ...

The State after statism

new State activities in the age of liberalization

This book assesses the changing nature of state intervention in the economies of the affluent democracies. Against a widespread understanding that contemporary developments, such as globalization and new technologies, are pressing for a rollback of state regulation in the economy, the book shows that these ...

Ayudas públicas y libre competencia en el sector audiovisual

En el presente libro se parte, en primer lugar de las especiales características de los medios audiovisuales, ya que a través de ellos se ejercen los derechos fundamentales reconocidos en el art. 20.1 de la Constitución Española, libertad de expresión y derecho a comunicar ...

Anuario de la competencia 2005

El Anuario de la Competencia 2005 forma parte de una colección iniciada en el año 1996 y que tiene su continuidad en los años posteriores (1997- 2004). El Anuario de la Competencia cumple esencialmente dos objetivos: promover el debate y la reflexión sobre la competencia ...

Economics of sports

Why does the sport industry operate as it does? Why do governments in some countries directly support sport programs facilities and athletes while other governments do not? Why does a pair of basketball shoes cost GBP100? Why can some sport organisations operate as monopolists to ...

Energía en España y desafío europeo

seguridad, concentración empresarial, competencia, regulación

INDICE: I. El desafío europeo y los nacionalismos rampantes. II. La seguridad del suministro, primer objetivo de Europa (y de España). III. Estructura empresarial de la industrial eléctrica y gasista. situación y tendencias. IV. La OPA de Gas Natural y sus parámetros fundamentales. V. La ...

Industria y cultura

Dana Borojovich expone en esta obra la importancia de la actual política agro-ganadera común en el mercosur y enumera sus ventajas. En este sentido, analiza también el desequilibrio existente entre la Unión Europea y los países subsidiarios, con los menores recursos. Alejandro Capato destaca en ...

La manzana de Blancanieves

salud, industria y alimentación

Los aditivos dañinos, los pesticidas tóxicos, los productos radiolíticos producidos en los alimentos por el proceso de la irradiación y los riesgos de las nuevas proteínas en los alimentos alterados genéticamente son los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis de la alimentación que rebajan la calidad de ...

The entertainment industry

It's hard to imagine a day passing without most people enjoying some form of entertainment, whether it's going to a football match, watching television, or listening to the radio. At the start of the twentieth century, however, the only form of public entertainment ...

Carbon and its domestication

Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its biogeochemical cycle has been a mainstay of development. This domestication is characterized by a number of thresholds: control of ...

Comunicación, periodismo y control informativo

Estados unidos, Europa y España

¿Qué ha ocurrido en los últimos años con los grandes imperios comunicativos y qué realidad rodea actualmente a los medios y a los periodistas que en ellos trabajan? Desde una perspectiva crítica, el presente trabajo describe y analiza los principales grupos de comunicación a nivel ...

Global price fixing

The book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. It provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. A deeper understanding of the phenomenon is afforded by intensive case studies of collusion in ...

Essays on transport economics

This book covers the basic analytical methods used in transportation economics and policy analysis. Encompassing fields of economics such as Industrial Organisation, Welfare Economics, General Equilibrium Theory and Input-Output-Analysis, the study of transport from an economic point of view serves as a test bench for ...

Energía

del monopolio al mercado. CNE, diez años en perspectiva

La Comisión Nacional de Energía se creó en abril de2000, enlazando con la labor fundacional de la Comisión del Sistema Electrónico Nacional, desde 1995, y de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema Eléctronico, después. Los años transcurridos -los dos lustros intersecuales- han sido testigos de hondas ...