Industrial Economics

FLOSS in an industrial economics perspective

The spread of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) represents one of the most important developments in the Information Technology (IT) industry in recent years. Within the context of a knowledge-based economy, this sort of approach appears exemplary for a growing number of industrial activities in which the amount of knowledge that has to be mastered is too large for a single agent, however...

Defence Economics and the Industrial Base

The Economics of the Industrial Revolution

Industrial Organization Theory and Experimental Economics

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Oct 10 2008 ) Essays in Industrial Economics

This dissertation consists of three chapters in Industrial Economics. Chapter 1 is the product of joint work with Filippo Balestrieri. In chapter 1 we examine the use of lotteries among horizontal differentiated goods as a mechanism to price discriminate consumers. We use the linear city model to represent a market with two differentiated goods. We show that the optimal selling strategy for a m...