Can the UK survive widespread dissatisfaction in both Scotland and England with the financing of public spending by Scotland’s parliament? This timely book explains how fiscal autonomy could raise economic growth and efficiency in Scotland – to the benefit of both Scotland and the rest of...

Sample-survey information is used to assess aspects of the predictive competence of the transaction-cost paradigm. The extent of vertical disintegration by oil companies in offshore oil gathering is shown to be consistent with the revealed efficacy of the markets in intermediate goods and...

We show that expansionary monetary policy causes exchange rate overshooting due to the secondary repercussion comes through the reaction of firms to changed asset prices and the firms’ decisions to invest in real capital. This overshooting effect adds to any overshooting that occurs through...

The thesis by HALLWOOD [1994] is compactly restated, showing that most of Love's points are either already encompassed, or, are useful extensions of it. Love's idea that production cost differences between firms are necessarily caused by transaction costs is rejected, as differences between...

Competencies-based theories of the firm are extended beyond current literature - focused only on flow-markets, to the context of the efficient pricing of competencies as capital-assets. It is shown that the combination of insider information and complementarity to the insider's production...