Market Failure or Success

The New Debate

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a few examples. This volume brings together the key papers on the subject, including classic papers by Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof and Paul David.The book provides powerful theoretical and empirical rebuttals challenging the assumptions of these new models and questioning the usual policy conclusions. It goes on to demonstrate how an examination of real markets and careful experimental studies are unable to verify the new theories. New frontiers for research are also suggested.The first systematic analysis of these important new theories, Market Failure or Success is required reading for all who seek to better understand one of the most exciting debates in economics today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-02-25
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781843760856

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Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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Edited by Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, Director, Mercatus Center and Director, James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, US and Eric Crampton, Chief Economist, The New Zealand Initiative

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:INTRODUCTION1. IntroductionTyler Cowen and Eric CramptonPART 1 NEW MARKET FAILURE THEORIES2. Toward a general theory of wage and price rigidities and economic fluctuations Joseph E. Stiglitz3. Keynesian economics and critique of first fundamental theorem of welfare economicsJoseph E. Stiglitz4. The market for ‘lemons’: quality uncertainty and the market mechanismGeorge A. Akerlof5. Path dependence, its critics and the quest for ‘historical economics’Paul A. DavidPART 2 THEORETICAL RESPONSES6. Information and efficiency: another viewpoint Harold Demsetz7. Efficiency wage models of unemployment: one view H. Lorne Carmichael8. Do informational frictions justify federal credit programs? Stephen D. Williamson9. The demand for and supply of assurance Daniel B. KleinPART 3 EMPIRICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESPONSES10. Beta, Macintosh and other fabulous tales Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis11. Some evidence on the empirical significance of credit rationing Allen N. Berger and Gregory F. Udell12. An empirical examination of information barriers to trade in insurance John Cawley and Tomas Philipson13. A direct test of the ÔlemonsÕ model: the market for used pickup trucks Eric W. Bond14. Public choice experiments Elizabeth Hoffman15. Non-prisoner’s dilemma Gordon Tullock16. Group size and the voluntary provision of public goods: experimental evidence utilizing large groups R. Mark Isaac, James M. Walker and Arlington W. Williams17. Cooperation in public-goods experiments: kindness or confusion? James AndreoniIndex