Contemporary Issues in Urban and Regional Economics
Contemporary Issues in Urban and Regional Economics

Author: Lawrence Yee

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781594543036

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If all politics are local, then all economics are regional and local. Globalisation, for all its mystery and so-called inevitability, has its foundations and bloodlines in urban and regional economics. The economic impacts of poverty, housing, transportation, education, and crime are included. This new book includes within its scope: multiplier and impact analysis, input-output models, growth theory, migration, urban and regional labour markets, urban and regional public policy, regional devolution, small firms policy, and foreign direct investment.

New Efficiency Theory
New Efficiency Theory

Author: Jati Sengupta

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-10

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 3540247912

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New efficiency theory refers to the various parametric and semi-parametric methods of estimating production and cost frontiers, which include data envelopment analysis (DEA) with its diverse applications in management science and operations research. This monograph develops and generalizes the new efficiency theory by highlighting the interface between economic theory and operations research. Some of the outstanding features of this monograph are: (1) integrating the theory of firm efficiency and industry equilibrium, (2) emphasizing growth efficiency in a dynamic setting, (3) incorporating uncertainty of market demand and prices, and (4) the implications of group efficiency by sharing investments. Applications discuss in some detail the growth and decline of the US computer industry, and the relative performance of mutual fund portfolios.

Entrepreneurship and Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy
Entrepreneurship and Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

Author: Charlie Karlsson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1135991286

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The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. Currently, there is a considerable amount of confusion and a variety of conflicting theories which are being used interchangeably and ambiguously. In this important new book, the authors argue that there are analytically distinct forms of entrepreneurship, each of them having an individual logic of their own. They highlight the role of individual economic agents with endowments of new knowledge or new combinations of old knowledge as entrepreneurs, and thus identify them as dynamic factors in the knowledge economy. Overall, this book not only provides a contemporary overview of current research in the field, but also summarizes the policy conclusions that can be drawn from current research.

Competition and Growth
Competition and Growth

Author: J. K. Sengupta

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-10-14

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0230505317

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Jati K. Sengupta examines the market dynamics of the evolution of industry and the impact of new technology with R&D and knowledge capital. The book builds the theory of innovations in the contexts of the high-tech industries of today such as computing and telecommunications.

Surfing the Global Tide
Surfing the Global Tide

Author: M. Wynn-Williams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-04-22

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0230233597

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Car manufacturing epitomizes modern industry, yet the overall perspective has been lost in speculation and self-promotion. Based on six years of research, this book is the first in years to reassess the industry. The result is a paradigm that quantifies the fundamental economies of scale and firm organizational structure.