Contributing to a convergence of legal and economic approaches, The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation in Telecommunications integrates economic theory into current EU antitrust policy within the sector. The book addresses the role of competition and regulatory policies on a number of key...

Quality assurance and associated activities play an increasingly important role in industry today. Aims to remind the academic of the eed to understand fully and consider industrial sectors which operate in environments where computers and paper have no part to play.

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of optimally designing three-phase induction motors. This problem can be formulated as a mixed variable programming problem. Two different solution strategies have been used to solve this problem. The first one consists in solving the continuous...

In this paper we clarify the role of strategic precommitment in a mixed oligopolistic market. We consider a model in which both the public incumbent and the private entrant determine capacity in the long run. In the short run the firms compete according to a capacity restricted Cournot game. We...