Coto-Millán Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-662-11710-1
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Contributions to Economics

Essays o n Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation aims to serve as a source and work of reference and consultation for the field of Microeconomics in general and of Industrial Organisation in particular. The book consists of four parts: Demand, Production and Costs (Supply), Market and Industrial Structure, and Failures of Market and Industrial Regulation. It combines theoretical concepts and a variety of empirical cases.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coto-Millán, Pablo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Demand.- 1 Modeling Seasonal Integrated Time Series: the Spanish Industrial Production Index.- 2 Passenger’s Choice of Air Transport under Road Competition: the Use of Cointegration Techniques.- 3 Introduction of an Innovative Product: the High Speed Train (AVE).- II. Production and Costs (Supply).- 4 Technical and Allocative Inefficiency in Spanish Public Hospitals.- 5 Technical Efficiency of Road Haulage Firms.- 6 Technological Innovation and Employment: Intersectoral Appraisals of Structural Change in the Service Economy.- III. Market and Industrial Structure.- 7 The Measurement of Intra-industry Trade and Specialisation: a Review.- 8 The Determinants of Intra-industry Trade in Spanish Manufacturing Sectors: a Cross-section Analysis.- 9 Economic Integration, Vertical and Horizontal Intra-industry Trade and Structural Adjustment: the Spanish Experience.- IV. Failures of Market and Industrial Regulation.- 10 Structure, Functioning and Regulation of the Spanish Electricity Sector. The Legal Framework and the New Proposals for Reform.- 11 Effects of a Reduction of Standard Working Hours on Labour Market Performance.- 12 Dynamic Adjustments in a Two-Sector Model.- Annex.- Basic References.- Other References.