The predictions of collusion- and efficiency-based static equilibrium explanations of interindustry profitability differences are formally developed and tested, using appropriate econometric techniques, with intraindustry data on seventy U.S. Internal Revenue Service minor manufacturing...

The utilities price regulation in the United States has historically been made by a state commission. Nevertheless, this regulatory system does not incentive cost controls within the utilities. In order to rectify this situation the regulatory commissions have changed their view to one of...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Plastic Cards -- 2 - From Seashells to Electrons -- 3 - More Than Money -- 4 - From Gourmets to the Masses -- 5 - From Sardi's to Saks.com -- 6 - It Takes Two to Tango -- 7 - Co-opetition and the Payment Card Ecosystem -- 8 - System Wars --...

Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that 'decarbonization' means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the...