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 ...

Transporte aéreo e ingeniería aeroportuaria

INDICE: Introducción. Organización del sistema aeronáutico. Economía del mercado aeronáutico. Aerolíneas de bajo coste. Gestión y explotación aeroportuaria. El sistema aeroportuaria. Área de movimiento. Servidumbres aeronáuticas. Las pistas: aspectos técnicos. Área terminal.

Government failure versus market failure

microeconomic policy research and government performance

When should government intervene in market activity and when is it best to let market forces take their natural course? How does the existing empirical evidence about government performance guide our answers to these questions? In this clear, concise book, Clifford Winston offers his innovative ...

Performance measurement and regulation of network utilities

This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today. The contributors to the book - researchers from academia, regulatory agencies and consulting firms - address the use of efficiency measures in price regulation and ...

Competitive electricity markets and sustainability

This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left ...

European Aeronautics

the southwestern axis

The book covers both the analysis of the major producer of civil aircraft (EADS/Airbus) located in the region and its relation with the cluster of enterprises within those regions. We studied the organization of production, the creation of knowledge within the industry, the concentration ...

Rules, rules, rules, rules

multilevel regulatory governance

The dynamics of multi-level regulatory governance are ever-changing, not just in a North American context, but in a global one as well. "Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules", clarifies the nature, causes, and dynamics of levels of regulatory governance in, or affecting, Canada. Edited by G. Bruce ...

El abuso de la posición de dominio

Elaborado con un enfoque multidisciplinar, este libro contiene los aspectos fundamentales de la figura del abuso de la posición de dominio. Se analizan los conceptos básicos y las conductas que configuran el núcleo de la cuestión. También se aborda su regulación y la oportuna jurisprudencia ...

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 ...

Strategy, economic organization, and the knowledge economy

the coordination of firms and resources

Limits to privatization

how to avoid too much of a good thing: a report to the Club of Rome

Network access, regulation and antitrust

The economics of Mobile Telecommunications

Concentración y pluralismo en la radio española

Inversión extranjera directa y procesos de deslocalización

Modern industrial organization

I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORY. ÍNDICE:1. Overview.2. The Firm and Costs. II. MARKET STRUCTURES. 3. Competition.4. Monopolies, Monopsonies, and Dominant Firms.5. Cartels: Oligopoly Joint Decision Making.6. Noncooperative Oligopoly.7. Product Differentiation and Monopolistic Competition.8. Industry Structure and Performance.III. BUSINESS ...

Regulation of functinal foods and nutraceuticals

a global perspective

Regulation of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: A Global Perspective offers a comprehensive resource for information on regulatory aspects of the growing and economically important functional food industry. Regulatory systems and definitions of key terms-food, supplement, drug, etc-vary from country to country. A thorough understanding of ...

Regulation and development

In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less developed countries (LDCs) and offers a ...

The economics of tourism destinations

The measurement of tourism is not an easy task. The Economics of Tourism Destinations provides a succinct guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners alike to decipher the methods of measurement of supply, demand, trends and impacts. In nine chapters, The ...