What is the New Economy, what makes it new, and what are the implications for antitrust, regulation and macroeconomic policy? Providing a non-technical and compelling analysis of the modern macro-economy, the contributors to this volume, eminent scholars all, provide their views on the New...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Michael R. Baye and John Morgan (2001), 'Information Gatekeepers on the Internet and the Competitiveness of Homogeneous Product Markets', American Economic Review, 91 (3), June, 454-74 -- Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole (2003), 'Platform Competition...

I. Preliminaries -- One: Introduction, -- Two: Mathematical Preliminaries -- II. Consumer Behavior -- Three: Consumer Behavior in the Absence of an Income Tax -- Four: Consumer Behavior in the Presence of an Income Tax -- III. Economic Indices in the Absence of Taxation -- Five: The Konus and...

Quality competition versus uninsurance in health care markets / Esther Gal-Or -- Executive compensation in oligopolies : sales, profits and pay / Marc C. Chopin -- Promises to match or beat the competition : evidence from retail tire prices / Maria Arbatskaya, Morten Hviid, Greg Shaffer --...

Volume 9 is entitled Industrial Organization and is the ninth volume in the series Advances in Applied Microeconomics. This series provides a forum in which researchers may disseminate frontier research in applied microeconomics to include both theoretical and empirical contributions in applied...