The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established a separate Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) in December 2018 to promote more consistent quality and use of economic analysis in its decisions. The agency's reorganization concentrated economists who previously were dispersed across...

Agri-food global value chains (GVCs) face growing pressure to enhance productivity and environmental sustainability, with technological innovation playing a critical role. In this context, start-ups have emerged as key innovation developers. This study provides a qualitative, exploratory...

The present investigation elaborates on the level of game theory application for the applied and theoretical analyses of climate change and development studies. This editorial shows that the common good character of global climate alongside the increasing internalization of environmental...

As the platform economy continues to reshape the way we live, work, and consume, firms across industries are increasingly dependent upon platforms to engage with customers. Although prior research highlights how these firms develop strategic responses to cope with risks and vulnerabilities...

The value principle in organizational economics states that the net market value of the goods that a firm sells is a key determinant of its organizational design. We survey and extend some recent developments in the theoretical literature at the nexus of organizational and industrial economics,...

A pesar de la importancia creciente del comercio de servicios en entornos digitales, su medición es incipiente y enfrenta limitaciones, especialmente en países en desarrollo. Este trabajo busca reducir esta brecha mediante la construcción de una nueva base de datos de más de 2.600 sitios en...

As the platform economy continues to reshape the way we live, work, and consume, firms across industries are increasingly dependent upon platforms to engage with customers. Although prior research highlights how these firms develop strategic responses to cope with risks and vulnerabilities...

Identifying the boundaries of a market belongs to the important practices in most areas of antitrust and competition policy. While they are established practices for market definition and delineation, dynamic processes of competition and the new phenomenon of (digital) ecosystems of markets...

Key factors to increase the survival rate of entrepreneurs -- Unveiling the nexus: a comprehensive review of university-based digital entrepreneurship ecosystem to foster students' startup -- Innovative entrepreneur in a developing country: the case of SMEs in Indonesia -- Competency modeling: a...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Differentiated goods and industry -- Chapter 3. Horizontal product differentiation -- Chapter 4. Vertical product differentiation -- Chapter 5. Network effects and product differentiation -- Chapter 6. Nesting horizontal and vertical differentiation --...

Preface -- Part I: From practice to theory -- Chapter 1: Capitalism and cooperatives -- Chapter 2: Definitions -- Chapter 3: Approach -- Part II: Goods and services market -- Chapter 4: Enjoying advantages -- Chapter 5: Market power -- Chapter 6: Asymmetric information -- Part III: Capital...

Data-driven AI pricing algorithms in on-line markets collect consumer information and use it in their pricing technologies. In the simplest symmetric Hotellingís model such technologies reduce prices and proÖts. We extend Hotellingís model with vertically di§erentiated products, cost...

Data-driven AI pricing algorithms in on-line markets collect consumer information and use it in their pricing technologies. In the simplest symmetric Hotelling's model such technologies reduce prices and profits. We extend Hotelling's model with vertically differentiated products, cost...

International small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) encounter several problems, including how to manage the industry forces in order to achieve their performance goals. Focusing mainly on international SMEs, we explored this issue by examining competitive advantage as a mediator in the...

The present investigation elaborates on the level of game theory application for the applied and theoretical analyses of climate change and development studies. This editorial shows that the common good character of global climate alongside the increasing internalization of environmental...

This study aims to investigate the Role of ownership structure on the Effect of investment strategy on future performance. The research focuses on ownership that compares foreign and domestic ownership structures. The research sample is a non-financial company in ASEAN countries. Multiple...

Chapter 1: Micro-macro relationships in the economics of complexity -- Chapter 2: Firm, sector, markets: the unavoidable questions -- Chapter 3: Pathways to interpret the micro-macro relationship and "turning points" -- Chapter 4: The micro-macro relationship in complex systems theory: a...

Part I. Theoretical Outline -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Digital Transformation as a starting point -- Chapter 3. The approach of the Freiburg School and why it is particularly useful now -- Part II. An Order Challenger -- Chapter 4. A functioning price system -- Chapter 5....

This book uses economic theory to explain how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating and accessing music prove to be a double-edged sword for...

The privatization of state-owned enterprises is fundamentally a process of legalization rather than liberalization. It requires defining the boundaries between public power and private property, which incurs considerable social costs. The persistence of SOEs in certain sectors in China reflects...

1. Pricing for Crowdsourcing Delivery Two-sided Platform and Social Welfare -- 2. Cultural Distance and Its Effect on International Tourism Flow to China -- 3. Revitalizing tourism stock assets and promoting high-quality tourism development -- 4. The Impact of Environmental Regulationon...

We study the relationship between market size and a number of firms in several healthcare professions in Slovakia to provide a new evidence about their entry decisions and a toughness of competition in the market. The size of a local market to support the entry of the first general practitioner...