This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics. They are institutional economics, information economics, environmental economics, international economics, financial economics, industrial organization, public economics, law and economics, and spatial...

The Microeconomics of Market Failures -- Contents -- Preface -- The Microeconomics of Market Failures -- Introduction -- Collective Choice -- The Aggregation of Preferences -- Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Implementation -- Public Economics -- Public Goods -- External Effects -- Nonconvexities --...

This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics. They are institutional economics, information economics, environmental economics, international economics, financial economics, industrial organization, public economics, law and economics, and spatial...

Entrepreneurial performance is almost always confounded with firm performance. In this paper we argue for an instrumental view of the firm by formally showing that entrepreneurs can amplify their expected success rates by designing their careers as temporal portfolios that exploit contagion...