The Microeconomics of Product Innovation

The Microeconomics of Product Innovation
Author: Paul Stoneman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0192548638

Economics has not given sufficient attention to the microeconomic analysis of innovation and technological change. Counteracting this imbalance, The Microeconomics of Product Innovation considers how the use of economic analysis can guide and inform the search for insight in the generation and adoption of new products synonymously labelled product innovation. Written in an accessible tone and restricting its analysis to the use of microeconomics, this book encompasses the definition of product innovation. It explores means of measurement and revealed patterns of the extent of product innovation; the economic analysis of the forces driving the demand for, the supply of, and incentives to generate new products; empirical evidence upon the determinants of the extent of product innovation; the diffusion of product innovations; product innovation and firm performance; price measurement under product innovation; product innovation and welfare; and public policy and product innovation.

The Economic Theory of Product Differentiation

The Economic Theory of Product Differentiation
Author: John Beath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1991-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521335522

There are few industries in modern market economies that do not manufacture differentiated products. This book provides a systematic explanation and analysis of the widespread prevalence of this important category of products. The authors concentrate on models in which product selection is endogenous. In the first four chapters they consider models that try to predict the level of product differentiation that would emerge in situations of market equilibrium. These market equilibria with differentiated products are characterised and then compared with social welfare optima. Particular attention is paid to the distinction between horizontal and vertical differentiation as well as to the related issues of product quality and durability. This book brings together the most important theoretical contributions to these topics in a succinct and coherent manner. One of its major strengths is the way in which it carefully sets out the basic intuition behind the formal results. It will be useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in industrial economics and microeconomic theory.

Economics, Strategy and the Firm

Economics, Strategy and the Firm
Author: Paul Cashian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137266481

Economics, Strategy and the Firm draws on the increasing synthesis of ideas from economics and business strategy to explain how organizations fulfil their corporate goals. The book provides an analytical framework showing how tools from economics can be used to explain, and even predict, the economic behaviour of organizations.

Industrial Organization in Context

Industrial Organization in Context
Author: Stephen Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1021
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199291195

Industrial Organization in Context examines the economics of markets, industries and their participants and public policy towards these entities. It takes an international approach and incorporates discussion of experimental tests of economic models.

Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation

Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
Author: Marshall Scott Poole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195135008

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.

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 Economics of Mobile Telecommunications

The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications
Author: Harald Gruber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2005-05-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1139444476

The mobile telecommunications industry is one of the most rapidly growing sectors around the world. This book offers a comprehensive economic analysis of the main determinants of growth in the industry. Harald Gruber demonstrates the importance of competitive entry and the setting of technological standards, both of which play a central role in their contribution to the fast diffusion of technology. Detailed country studies provide empirical evidence for the development of the main themes: the diffusion of mobile telecommunications services, the pricing policies in network industries, the role of entry barriers such as radio spectrum and spectrum allocation procedures. This research-based survey will appeal to a wide range of applied industrial economists within universities, government and the industry itself.

Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK

Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK
Author: Barry J. Rodger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317907167

Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK provides a focused guide to the main provisions and policies at issue in the EU and UK, including topics such as enforcement, abuse of dominance, anti-competitive agreements, cartels, mergers, and market investigations. The book’s contents are tailored to cover all major topics in competition law teaching, and the authors’ clear and accessible writing style offers an engaging and easy to follow overview of the subject for course use. The fifth edition provides a full update for this well-established title, presenting and contextualising the impact of key cases, as well as changes to enforcement practice, and at a legislative and institutional level. There are new, separate chapters in this edition on private enforcement and UK market investigations to reflect the increasing significance of these key areas of competition law practice. Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK integrates useful pedagogical features to help clarify topics and reinforce important points: chapter overviews and summaries highlight the key points to take away from each chapter to structure student learning discussion questions facilitate self-testing and seminar discussions of the major issues covered in each chapter, to help reinforce understanding of these topics further reading lists additional resources in order to guide research and develop subject knowledge a new glossary provides succinct explanations of competition law terminology, ideal for those studying the topic for the first time Clear, focused and student-friendly, this title offers a comprehensive resource for students taking competition law courses, and is supported online by updates to the law offered on Angus MacCulloch’s blog, Who’s Competing (http://whoscompeting.wordpress.com/).

Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Volume I

Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Volume I
Author: Luis C. Corchón
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178536328X

The first volume of this wide-ranging Handbook contains original contributions by world-class specialists. It provides up-to-date surveys of the main game-theoretic tools commonly used to model industrial organization topics. The Handbook covers numerous subjects in detail including, among others, the tools of lattice programming, supermodular and aggregative games, monopolistic competition, horizontal and vertically differentiated good models, dynamic and Stackelberg games, entry games, evolutionary games with adaptive players, asymmetric information, moral hazard, learning and information sharing models.