Industrial Economics

The Economics of Productivity in Asia and Australia

Renuka Mahadevan

Productivity growth has long been recognised by both economists and non-economists as being necessary for all economies aspiring to raise their standard of living. Thus, Renuka Mahadevan aims to highlight the conceptual differences, adva...

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Industrial Location Economics

Edited by Philip McCann

Because space is not homogenous, economic activities occur in different locations. Understanding the reasons behind this and understanding exactly how industries are spatially organized is the central theme of this book. Industrial Locat...

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Market Failure or Success

Edited by Tyler Cowen, Eric Crampton

Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, s...

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Institutions, Innovation and Growth

Edited by Jean-Philippe Touffut

The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on i...

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Privatization and Globalization

Edited by Ram Mudambi

The two most important forces affecting the world economy in the closing decades of the 20th century are globalization and privatization. While proceeding in parallel, these forces have nonetheless had significant interactions with one a...

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Competition, Monopoly and Corporate Governance

Edited by Michael Waterson

Competition, Monopoly and Corporate Governance covers three broad themes, each associated with a particular strand of Keith Cowling’s own writings in industrial economics and each represented by four specially commissioned papers.

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The Global Challenge to Industrial Districts

Edited by Paolo Guerrieri, Simona Iammarino, Carlo Pietrobelli

The current trend towards globalization is posing a substantial challenge to SME clusters to restructure and reach out to distant markets and knowledge sources, while at the same time exploiting the advantages of local factors and agglom...

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Growth, Industrial Organization and Economic Generalities

William J. Baumol

This compendium of essays brings together some of William Baumol’s most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented gr...

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The Principal Agent Model

Edited by Jean-Jacques Laffont

Incentive theory is the most important development in economics in the last forty years. The principal-agent model is the core of this theory. This authoritative collection brings together the essential literature concerning the principa...

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Trust

Edited by Elias L. Khalil

Trust is an authoritative collection of previously published articles and is unique in the growing literature on trustworthiness. The broad ranging articles are organized into three parts, expressing three definite answers to the questio...

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International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2003

UNIDO

A unique and comprehensive source of information, this book is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policymakers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufac...

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