Lévêque recounts twenty revealing tales of real-life rivalry between firms across diverse industries, including wine, skiing, opera, video games and cruise liners. These entertaining and insightful narratives are informed by recent advances in economics, factoring in the many forces driving...

Introduction -- The context: the challenge of boosting competitiveness -- The story: institutions, actors and port reform legislation -- The theory: institutional change and business lobbying -- Full steam ahead - spurs to port reform legislation -- A perilous journey - institutions and actors...

Governments tend to increase their borrowing at the same time, giving rise to a global fiscal cycle. This global fiscal cycle has a large component that is unexplained by global business cycle variables. We propose a novel explanation for the emergence of the global fiscal cycle: governments'...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Marktfunktionen und Marktprozesse: ein Überblick -- 3 Der Markträumungsprozess (M-Prozess) -- 4 Der Renditenormalisierungsprozess (R-Prozess) -- 5 Der Übermachterosionsprozess (Ü-Prozess) -- 6 Der...

In a nation pledged to “Unity in Diversity”, few industries could be more important than interisland shipping. Yet, since independence, problems plaguing interisland shipping have continued, despite the rehabilitation and modernization under the New Order Government. This book tries to...