Institutions in Perspective

Festschrift in Honor of Rudolf Richter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-3-16-149061-3
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 407 Seiten, LEINEN, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 747 g

Rudolf Richter is one of the leading pioneers in the field of the New Institutional Economics in Germany. The articles in this Festschrift were written by renowned scholars from Germany and other countries. In addition to general perspectives on the New Institutional Economics, the Festschrift also contains articles on the theory of the firm, economic contract theory, on pricing and competition, macroeconomics and monetary economics and on various aspects of law and economics.

Zielgruppe

Economists, business and management scholars, legal experts, political scientists, sociologists, corresponding libraries and institutes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bindseil, Ulrich

Haucap, Justus

Wey, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Perspectives on the New Institutional Economics Oliver E.Williamson: The Sociology and Economics of Organization: One View of the Dialogue - Claude Ménard: Challenges in New Institutional Economics

Theories of the Firm
Eirik G. Furubotn: The New Institutional Economics and the Theory of the Multiobjective Firm - Kenneth E. Scott: Corporate Governance in the New Institutional Economics - Arnold Picot and Marina Fiedler: Property Rights and Openness as Factors of Innovation

Contract Theory
Victor P. Goldberg: Risk Management in Long-Term Contracts - Björn Blüml and Werner Neus: Cross-Border Debt Contracts with Weakly Sovereign Debtors - Urs Schweizer: Default Option by Design

Pricing and Competition
Arthur S. De Vany and Thomas R. Saving: Priority Pricing When Demand Is Stochastic - Volker Böhm and Jürgen Eichberger: Production Efficiency and Imperfect Competition - Christian Pfeil and Thorsten Posselt: Customer Relationship Management and Price Competition: Comments on the raison d’être of Customer Loyalty Programs

Macroeconomics,Money and Credit - Peter Bernholz: Fuzzy and
Opaque Public Property Rights - Ulrich Bindseil: Active Portfolio Management by Central Banks: Why and How?

Law and Economics
Siegwart Lindenberg: What Sustains Market Societies as Open Access Societies? - Ivo Bayer and Holger Bonus: European Identity and Symbolic Uses of Politics - Wernhard Möschel: Megamergers: Is There Need for New Legislation? - Christian Kirchner: The Development of European Community Law in the Light of New Institutional Economics - Dieter Schmidtchen and Hans-Jörg Schmidt- Trenz: Territoriality of Law and the International Trade Game: Towards a New Institutional Economics of International Transactions - Justus Haucap, Uwe Pauly and Christian Wey: Collective Wage Bargaining in Germany as Viewed Through the Looking Glass of Competition Theory

Über Autor(innen)

Wey, Christian
holds the Chair for Network Economics and Information and Communication Economics at the TU Berlin since 2003 and is Head of the Department for Information Society and Competition at the German Institute für Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin.

Bindseil, Ulrich
is the Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank.

Haucap, Justus
holds the Chair for Industrial Economics and Competition Policy at the Ruhr-University of Bochum since 2004 and has been a Research Professor at the German Institute für Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin since 2005.

Rudolf Richter is Professor emeritus of Economics, in particular Economic Theory at the Universität des Saarlandes. Ulrich Bindseil is the Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank.

Justus Haucap holds the Chair for Industrial Economics and Competition Policy at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, and is Research Professor at the German Institute für Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin.

Christian Wey holds the Chair for Network Economics and Information and Communication Economics at the TU Berlin and is Head of the Department for Information Society and Competition at the German Institute für Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin.