Spatial Price Theory of Imperfect Competition

Spatial Price Theory of Imperfect Competition
Author: Hiroshi Ohta
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Economic space is the distance that separates economic agents such as manufacturers and consumers. Distance naturally imposes costs on the economic agents, but it has long been a neglected element in orthodox economic theory, one thought to complicate the issue unnecessarily. However, the theoretical implications of assuming away spatial elements may be especially significant for pricing practices and hence for competition. This volume shows why and in what ways the concept of economic space is vital and thus needed to reform orthodox price theory. It negates the classical paradigm of perfect competition and calls for a spatial price theory of imperfect competition. Among Hiroshi Ohta's findings in spatial microeconomic theory are that unlimited entry of new firms into the market may not lower consumer prices and that increased labor productivity in a spatial economy may actually lower real wages. Researchers and students of economic geography and regional science and economics will find the author's careful analysis, equations, and illustrations valuable in understanding a decade of advances in spatial price theory and in exploring new theories of competition.

The Economics of Imperfect Competition

The Economics of Imperfect Competition
Author: Melvin L. Greenhut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1987-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521315647

This new approach to traditional price theory and to the analysis of imperfect competition represents a breakthrough in the development of a "new" microeconomic theory. Addresses issues in price theory, industrial organization, international trade and regional urban economics.

The Economics of New Goods

The Economics of New Goods
Author: Timothy F. Bresnahan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226074188

New goods are at the heart of economic progress. The eleven essays in this volume include historical treatments of new goods and their diffusion; practical exercises in measurement addressed to recent and ongoing innovations; and real-world methods of devising quantitative adjustments for quality change. The lead article in Part I contains a striking analysis of the history of light over two millenia. Other essays in Part I develop new price indexes for automobiles back to 1906; trace the role of the air conditioner in the development of the American south; and treat the germ theory of disease as an economic innovation. In Part II essays measure the economic impact of more recent innovations, including anti-ulcer drugs, new breakfast cereals, and computers. Part III explores methods and defects in the treatment of quality change in the official price data of the United States, Canada, and Japan. This pathbreaking volume will interest anyone who studies economic growth, productivity, and the American standard of living.

Microeconomic Theories of Imperfect Competition

Microeconomic Theories of Imperfect Competition
Author: Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 856
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This collection of readings provides a broad overview of the major theoretical concepts in the field and includes papers on industry size, quantity and price competition, entry barriers, product differentiation, incomplete information and general equilibrium with imperfect competition.

Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation

Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation
Author: Simon P. Anderson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262011280

"The discrete choice approach provides an ideal framework for describing the demands for differentiated products and can be used for studying most product differentiation models in the literature. By introducing extra dimensions of product heterogeneity, the framework also provides richer models of firm location and product selection."--BOOK JACKET.

The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect

The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect
Author: Steven Brakman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-07-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781107402430

Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz revolutionized the modelling of imperfectly competitive markets and launched "the second monopolistic competition revolution". Experts in the areas of macroeconomics, international trade theory, economic geography, and international growth theory examine the success of the second revolution in this collection of papers. They reveal what appears to be "missing" and look forward to the next step in the modelling of imperfectly competitive markets. The text includes a comprehensive survey of the two monopolistic competition revolutions, and previously unpublished working papers by Dixit and Stiglitz that led to their famous 1977 paper.

Network Economics

Network Economics
Author: Anna Nagurney
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475730055

Since the publication of the first edition of Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach in 1993, there have been many ad vances in both methodological developments, as well as, applications in this field. These have occurred in an environment of an increasingly networked global economy, in which the importance of transportation networks and communication networks is now well-recognized, with net works such as knowledge networks, environmental networks, and finan cial networks receiving growing attention. This edition adds recent research progress in new and evolving ar eas of network economics through common and unifying principles. In addition, it includes dynamic models of traffic, of spatially separated markets, of oligopolistic markets, and of financial markets. In order to expand the range and reach of this material, we have also included a series of problems in an appendix for self-study purposes and for use in the classroom. We note that computational economics has been at the forefront in stimulating the development of mathematical methodologies for the analysis and solution of complex, large-scale problems. The past fifteen years, in particular, have witnessed a dramatic growth of interest in this area. Supported by the increasing availability of data and by advances in computer architectures, the scale and dimensions of problems that can now be handled are unveiling new horizons in both theoretical modeling and policy analysis.

Economics of Agglomeration

Economics of Agglomeration
Author: Masahisa Fujita
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2002-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521805247

This book provides the first unifying treatment of the range of economic reasons for the clustering of firms and households. Its goal is to explain further the trade-off between various forms of increasing returns and different types of mobility costs. Although referring to agglomeration as a generic term is convenient, it should be noted that the concept of economic agglomeration refers to distinct real world situations. The main focus of the treatment is on cities, but it also explores the formation of agglomerations, such as commercial districts within cities, industrial clusters at the regional level, and the existence of imbalance between regions. The book is rooted within the realm of modern economics and borrows concepts from geography and regional science, which makes it accessible to a broad audience formed by economists, geographers, regional planners, and other scientists. It may be used in coursework for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates.

Spatial Economics Volume I

Spatial Economics Volume I
Author: Stefano Colombo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030400980

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity. Spatial Economics is the branch of economics that explicitly aims to incorporate the space dimension in the analysis of economic phenomena. From its beginning in the last century, Spatial Economics has contributed to the understanding of the economy by developing plenty of theoretical models as well as econometric techniques having the “space” as a core dimension of the analysis. This edited volume addresses the complex issue of Spatial Economics from a theoretical point of view. This volume is part of a more complex project including another edited volume (Spatial Economics Volume II: Applications) collecting original papers which address Spatial Economics from an applied perspective.