Microeconomics category: 693 books

A very common socialist claim is that the free market leads to economic monopolies, and it is the governments’ duty to protect consumers from “unreasonably” high prices set by monopolists. The purpose of this essay is to explain in simple words, why consumers should not be protected from the...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich VWL - Mikroökonomie, allgemein, Note: 2,0, Universität Paderborn (International Management), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ein Grundcharakteristikum der Menschen scheint der Drang zu sein, das Neue und Unentdeckte erforschen zu wollen. Ständig werden...

Handbook of Computational Economics summarizes recent advances in economic thought, revealing some of the potential offered by modern computational methods. With computational power increasing in hardware and algorithms, many economists are closing the gap between economic practice and the frontiers...

Mechanism design is an analytical framework for thinking clearly and carefully about what exactly a given institution can achieve when the information necessary to make decisions is dispersed and privately held. This analysis provides an account of the underlying mathematics of mechanism design based...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Micro-economics, grade: 1,7, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: Table of Content 1. Introduction 2. Historical background 2.1 History of Energy supply 3. European Perspective 4. Current Situation 5. Why Regulation is needed...

Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to...

A tool of economic development of the poor people living below poverty line, micro finance has been a tremendous success in recent years. In developing economies including India this is in vogue for quite some time. Its success is vindicated by the conferment of Noble Prize on the pioneer, Dr. Mohammad...

The Schumpeterian process of creative destruction is an essential ingredient of a dynamic economy. In many countries around the world however this process is weakened by pervasive regulation of product and factor markets. This book documents the regulatory obstacles faced by firms particularly in developing...

Hispanics account for more than half the population growth in the United States over the last decade. With this surge has come a dramatic spike in the number of Hispanic-owned businesses. Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s is a pioneering study of this nascent demographic. Drawing on rich quantitative...

Sport Governance provides a comprehensive guide to the practical application of governance principles to amateur and professional sport organisations operating at the community, state/provincial, national, and international levels. It presents a balanced view between accepted practice and what contemporary...

Consider a monopoly with a cost function of .  Its output is sold to two different markets:  US and Europe with the following demand functions.

When writing the preface the main work has been done. What remains is thanking all those people who directly or indirectly contributed to the out­ come. My thanks go to my family and friends for their encouragement towards the completion of this book. Among the academic profession, I would like to...

This monograph studies multi-member households or, more generally, socio-economic groups from a purely theoretical perspective and within a general equilibrium framework, in contrast to a sizeable empirical literature. The approach is based on the belief that households, their composition, decisions...

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Micro-economics, grade: 8,5, Maastricht University (School of Business and Economics), course: International Business, language: English, abstract: This paper explains general aspects of E-Commerce with groceries and focuses on potential...