1st Edition

Firms and Markets Essays in Honour of Basil Yamey

Edited By K. Tucker, Charles Baden-Fuller Copyright 1986
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Industrial and business economics is a very important field with a great deal of relevance to the commercial world and to business studies students as well as to economists. It is a rapidly developing field in which many new research advances have been made in recent years. This book, first published in 1986, considers many aspects of both the theory of and the evidence on economic behaviour, and... Read more

Editors’ Introduction K. Tucker and C. Baden Fuller.  Professor Basil S. Yamey: A Tribute P. Bauer.  Part 1. Workings of Commodity Futures Markets  1. Price Determination and Storage in Commodity Markets: Soybeans and Wool B.A. Goss and D.A.E. Giles  2. Testing the Efficiency of the Tin Futures Market on the London Metal Exchange V.G. Brasse  Part 2. Competition in Service Industries  3. Rising Concentration: The UK Grocery Trade 1970-1980 C.W.F. Baden Fuller  4. The Structure and Behaviour of the British Building Society Movement C. Whitehead  Part 3. Auction Markets  5. Competitive Bidding and the Price Mechanism L.R. Webb and P. de Jong  Part 4. Firm Behaviour  6. Econometric Aspects of Firm Growth Behaviour S.C. Peck  7. Monopoly, Entry and Predatory Pricing: The Hoffman-La Roche Case P.K. Gorecki  Part 5. Law and Economics  8. Monopolistic Competition and Second Best: Some New Conceptual Schemes R.S. Markovits  Part 6. International Trade  9. The Impact on Exporters of Import Restrictions R.H. Snape  Part 7. History of Thought  10. The Place of Industry and Trade in the Analysis of Alfred Marshall P.L. Williams

Biography

K. Tucker, Charles Baden-Fuller