Industrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction : : Essays in Honour of B. Curtis Eaton / / Gregory Dow, Andrew Eckert, Doug West.

B. Curtis Eaton is one of Canada's leading microeconomists. As an applied economic theorist, Eaton has contributed greatly to industrial organization literature and has also worked in labour economics, economic geography, and organizational theory. The essays in this volume, by former students...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part I. B. Curtis Eaton: His Impact on Economics and Economists
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2 B. Curtis Eaton's Contributions to the Economics of Information
  • Part II. Industrial organization and Spatial Competition
  • 3. Entry Deterrence via Contracts
  • 4. The Spatial Evolution of Alberta's Privatized Liquor Store Industry
  • 5. Shopper City
  • Part III. Trade and Productivity
  • 6. The Interaction between Education, Skilled Migration, and Trade
  • 7. Differentiated Products, International Trade, and Simple General Equilibrium Effects
  • 8. A Tale of Two Cities: Cyclical Movements in Price and Productivity in Mining and Manufacturing
  • Part IV. Social Interaction
  • 9. Image Building
  • 10. Worker Participation and Adverse Selection
  • 11. Signalling Risk Tolerance: Nuclear Arsenals and Alliance Formation in the Cold War
  • 12. Social Learning in a Model of Adverse Selection
  • 13. Intertemporal Discounting with Veblen Preferences: Theory and Evidence
  • Contributors