Cerna, Mines ParisTech is a research centre in Industrial Economics. Over the last years, Cerna has carried through various research programs on the interplay between technological standards and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Building upon this experience, we wish to comment on those parts of the proposed guidelines for applying European Competition Law to Horizontal Cooperation agreements...

The need for dynamic operation in the process industry is described by Backx et al. [1]. The economics are increasingly driven by the market and this requires flexible supply chains. In such an environment it is much harder to optimize economic performance while maintaining the required product quality and honoring operational constraints. Therefore it is expected that the current industrial st...

BO LI1, KAIBO WANG2 and ARTHUR B. YEH3,∗ 1Research Center for Contemporary Management, Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 3Department of Applied Statistics...

Industrial districts represented an economic system that could guarantee significant advantages thanks to the enhancement of the social and relational fabric. In Principles of Economics, Marshall (1896) defines districts as a manifestation of external economies deriving from the concentration of many small firms in a particular area. Among the advantages of external economies are reduced costs,...

This paper has been prepared for the Jerome Levy Economics Institute Workshop on Earnings Inequality, Technology, and Institutions, June 8-10, 1999. We thank participants for their helpful comments. The authors also wish to thank Michael Piore, Paul Osterman, and other participants in the MIT Industrial Relations Seminar. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed...

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Research Assistant, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, (1968-1969) • Faculty, Department of Economics, Stanford University, (1969present) • Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, (1966-1967) • Fellow, Econometric Society, (1993-1993) • Fellow, University College, University of London, (2001-2001) • Fellow, Society of Labor Econom...

In 1930, writing about “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” Keynes (1930, p. 373) opined that “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid!” In this essay I offer some observations on the evolution of industrial organization economics and consider at the end whether its practitioners have come to...

“Peasant worker shortage” originated from coastal towns in Fujian in 2003. However, there are about 200,000,000 surplus labors, and about 5,000,000 new surplus labor. From an angle of economics, the author analyses the causes of this phenomenon, indicating that the problems mirrored by the shortage of farmer laborers will have negative influence upon the construction of a new type industrial st...

We analyze the role of subcontracting in industries where firms compete with their design of organizational production mode as strategic instrument. In particular, we investigate the decision of what fraction of components to produce internally and what fraction to subcontract. In-house production of components is assumed to generate monitoring costs, which increase as a convex function of the ...

Game theory has been applied during the last two decades to an ever increasing number of important practical problems in economics, industrial organization, business strategy, finance, accounting, market design and marketing; including antitrust analyses, monetary policy, and firm restructuring. In this paper we give insight into the growing role of game theory, and particularly of the principa...