Understanding and Regulating the Market at a Time of Globalization: The Case of the Cement Industry / Edition 1

by H. Dumez, Richard L Jr Branham

Overview

How does a market globalize? How do antitrust and trade policies speed up or slow down the process? How do firms take part in it? This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the phenomenon from a thorough study of the cement industry. Considered as a model of spatial competition in economic textbooks and inherently local, the industry globalized in the 1980s. This book deals with this extreme case highlighting the fundamental characteristics of globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312226220
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/10/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Hervé Dumez and Alain Jeunemaître are Researchers at the Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Éscole Polytechnique, Paris.

Table of Contents

Foreword--Suzanne Berger, M.I.T.
• Introduction
• The Cement Industry: A Model Case
• Part I: Local Competition
• Stabilizing Local Competition
• Local Market Stabilization and Rivalry
• Local Market Stabilization and Competition Policy
• Part II: Globalization of Local Markets
• The Internal Conditions of Globalization
• The Globalization Process
• Strategic Responses to Globalization
• Part III: Understanding and Regulating Markets at a Time of Globalization
• The European Case

Editorial Reviews

'...I admire this book greatly. It is written in a style that non-specialists (and even non-economists) will find most inviting, even though it deploys concepts that are sophisticated...' - William James Adams, Professor of Economics, The University of Michigan

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