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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Law,economics and cyberspace

the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law

This book is not only the best kind of law and economics, but it is the best kind of cyberspace law and economics. By framing the economic analysis around market failures, the authors demonstrate both the power and limits of economic analysis. And by applying ...

Technology, television and competition

The Politics of Digital TV.

In the late 19805s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. A key common feature to the debates ayer digital TV (DTV) in the United States, Western Europe and japan was the eventual victory ...

Lessons from deregulation

telecommunications and airlines after the crunch

Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically. Since these industries were among the most important#and most visible#to have been unleashed from regulation in recent decades (albeit in widely differing degree ...

Merging traffic

the consolidation of the international automobile industry

During the past few decades the global auto industry has concentrated into a small number of groups led by GM, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, VW, Toyota, and Renault. The trend is of great political and economic significance because of the large size of the industry, its importance ...

From airline reservations to sonic the hedgehog

a history of the software industry

From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers ...

Gambling in America

costs and benefits

Gambling in America carefully breaks new ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and ...

The business of sport management

The scale and importance of the lucrative sport industry demands quality business professionals. This text aims to equip the manager and future manager of sport organizations with the tools they need ÍNDICE: 1.Introduction - the unique evolution of sport as "business": governance and ethics - conflicting ...

Competition policy

theory and practice

This is the first book to provide a systematic treatment of the economics of antitrust (or competition policy) in a global context. It draws on the literature of industrial organisation and on original analyses to deal with such important issues as cartels, joint-ventures, mergers, vertical ...

Veinte años de privatizaciones en España

La privatización de empresas públicas tiene muchas facetas. Ha sido un instrumento adecuado para aumentar la eficiencia de las empresas implicadas, introducir competitividad, ayudar a la eliminación del déficit público, ampliar los mercados financieros y estimular el ahorro particular. Más allá del volumen de ingresos ...

The business of software

what every manager, programmer, and entrepreneur must know to thrive and survive in good times and bad

The software industry is in a fast-paced league of its own. The drive to have the highest level of speed, the highest level of flexibility in strategic planning, and the need to manage talent of a different generation and mindset, make it truly unique. Few ...

The economics of standards

theory,evidence, policy

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the important topic of standards, which remains a vastly under-researched field of empirical inquiry. It presents a variety of interesting empirical analyses which reveal the driving forces and the economic impacts of standardization both in the manufacturing and ...

Biotech industry

a global, economic, and financing overview

Provides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnology industry, including where major research is being conducted, where it#s being applied, and where money and intellectual capital are flowing. Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurial scientist in the biotech ...

Games and public administration

the law of economics of regulation and licensing

Despite the increasing trend towards deregulation, the public regulation of private activities remains a common phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, it is frequently claimed that slow and costly regulatory licensing procedures impede economic growth. This book investigates the strategic and adaptive interaction between citizen-applicants and ...

Política cultural

Desde el punto de vista estético, la cultura opera como un significante de las diferencias y similitudes en el gusto, la sensibilidad y el estatus de los grupos sociales. Antropológicamente, se trata de comprender la manera en que vivimos nuestra vida dentro de esos grupos ...

Derecho de la competencia europeo y español

Vol. V: Curso de iniciación

La descentralización del modelo español de Defensa de la Competencia ocupa un lugar preeminente en este volumen. Los artículos efectúan un examen crítico de la Ley 1/2002 de Coordinación de las Competencias entre el Estado y las Comunidades Autónomas en materia de Defensa de ...

El merco regulador del medicamento

un análisis institucional conparado España-Estados Unidos