This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods. The contributions employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach, and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the theory. Furthermore, they highlight a...

The Technology Transfer Challenge -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 -- Inventions and their commercial exploitation in German universities: Analyzing determinants among academic researchers -- Do startups benefit from incubation? An analysis of startups’ absorptive capacity -- Absorptive...

Competition and efficiency is at the core of economic theory. This volume collects papers of leading scholars, which extend the conventional general equilibrium model in important ways: Efficiency and price regulation are studied when markets are incomplete and existence of equilibria in such...