Economics of industrial organization

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy.

Managing Change in the Postal and Delivery Industries brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the express industry, regulators, economists and lawyers to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries.

Demand side management (DSM) is one of the most topical issues in regulating electric utilities, both in the United States and internationally.

Organization, Performance and Equity: Perspectives on the Japanese Economy provides an analysis of key components of the Japanese economy and business structures, edited by two leading American-based Japan scholars.

My interest in X-Efficiency (XE) dates back to 1978.

This volume focuses on incentive regulation and competition.

Over the past ten years, there has been growing interest in the process of strategic decision-making among both managers and researchers.

In the winter of 1996, after 4 years of planning and research, the Symposium on the Virtual Utility was held in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Discretionary Managerial Behavior presents a quantification of the managerial behavior within decentralized organizations.

TEODOR GABRIEL CRAINIC, DIRECTOR The Centre for Research on Transportation (C.

Deregulation of Electric Utilities reviews the main issues relating to the changing environment in the utility industry.

Each chapter in Equilibrium and Advanced Transportation Modelling develops a topic from basic concepts to the state-of-the-art, and beyond.

Technology, Innovation and Industrial Economics: Institutional Perspectives, inspired by the work of William E.

There is a growing tendency to organize various aspects of business life by projects, and to set up temporary organizations in a competition where speed and adaptability becomes a major necessity.

Health, The Medical Profession, and Regulation presents new evidence concerning health and the environment, inequality of health in many countries, and the compatibility of different quality of life measurements, along with new solutions to problems of health policy.

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Karolina Ekholm Over recent decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become a major force in the global economy.

This book is but the draft of a draft, as Melville said of Moby Dick.

The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way.

In an era of intense globalization, the critical role of the region as a center for economic development has sometimes been overlooked.

Competition, Efficiency and Welfare contains a collection of papers in honor of Manfred Neumann.

Cooperation in Research and Development provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of a distinct form of inter-firm collaboration in Research & Development (R&D): research joint ventures (RJVs).

David Gabel and David F.

Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-based public institutions, and illustrates these guidelines through case studies conducted at one technology-based public institution, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention examines the implications of allocating limited entrepreneurial attention among activities or projects.

Economics of the U.

My curiosity with the economic efficiency and social benefits of provisions used by telecommunications carriers to limit their liability to customers for damages arising from service interruptions and network outages is a longstanding one.

In the centennial year of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft, first master of my Cam- bridge College, Churchill, and the first man to split the atomic nucleus by artificial means, it is indeed relevant to consider the outcome of his efforts at developing atomic power.

Regulation Under Increasing Competition brings together practitioners, regulators, and economists to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the telecommunications and electricity industries.

Over the past thirty-five years, a tremendous body of both theoretical and empirical research has been established on the `science of transportation'.

The aim of this book, Future of the Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting and Demand Analysis, is to describe leading research in the area of empirical telecommunications demand analysis and forecasting in the light of tremendous market and regulatory changes.

companies to diversify may outweigh the costs of doing so, and that some traditional regulatory concerns may be excessively restrictive.

Michael A.

This monograph is concerned with the determination of the allowed rate ofreturn in rate cases which, in part, determines the rates ofcharge to customers of public utilities.

Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry.

he debate on 'The Dynamics of Wage Relations in the New Europe' is an T offspring of a research project on 'Disparities in Wage Relations and the Reproduction of Skills in Europe'.

A frequent complaint in literature is that services have been previously largely overlooked by innovation researchers and technology policy makers.

According to its proponents, the `new economy' is associated with sustainable growth, increased demand for labor and zero inflation.

Long-term supply relationships are of crucial importance in industrial organization.

Electricity markets are being deregulated or face new regulatory frameworks.

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Postal service has received considerably less attention in the economics literature than traditional public utilities.

This book is based on a conference on `Regulation and the Evolving Nature of Postal and Delivery Services: 1992 and Beyond' held at Village PTT, La Londe les Maures, France, on March 18, 1992.

Global interest in technology-based growth politics is growing as technology becomes an increasingly important factor in economic competitiveness.

Modem industrial society functions with the expectation that electricity will be available when required.

It is common to assert that utility investors are compensated in the allowed rate of return for the risk of large disallowances, such as arise for investments found imprudent or not `used and useful'.

This book is based on two seminars held at Rutgers on October 22, 1993, and May 6, 1994 entitled `Incentive Regulation for Public Utilities'.

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