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Product Description: Providing the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for less developed countries (LDCs), Jean-Jacques Laffont demonstrates how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of LDCs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521840187 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 11, 2005, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Providing the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for less developed countries (LDCs), Jean-Jacques Laffont demonstrates how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of LDCs.

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9780521549486 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Providing the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for less developed countries (LDCs), Jean-Jacques Laffont demonstrates how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of LDCs.

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Product Description: During the last decade, Latin American countries have reformed infrastructure services through private sector participation to enhance internal efficiency and competition to increase consumer welfare. Competition Policy in Regulated Industries offers conceptual and practical approaches to help such emerging economies identify competition problems in infrastructure sectors and find legal and structural solutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Paulina Beato (editor) and Jean-Jacques Laffont (editor)

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9781931003360 | Inter-Amer Development Bank, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.75 | About this edition: During the last decade, Latin American countries have reformed infrastructure services through private sector participation to enhance internal efficiency and competition to increase consumer welfare.

Laffont examines the incentive problems created by delegating economic policy to self-interested politicians and the blurry line between flexibility of decision-making and discretion to pursue personal agendas. (view table of contents)

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9780198294245 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 15, 2000, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Laffont examines the incentive problems created by delegating economic policy to self-interested politicians and the blurry line between flexibility of decision-making and discretion to pursue personal agendas.

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9780199248681 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 13, 2001, cover price $59.00

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Product Description: Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun to emerge to place the topic at the heart of economic thinking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780691091839 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save.

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9780691091846 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 26, 2001, cover price $72.00

Miscellaneous:

9781400829453 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 26, 2001, cover price $47.50

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9780262122238 | Mit Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $30.00

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9780262621502 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, March 1, 2001), cover price $45.00

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Product Description: These books comprise papers examining the latest developments in economic theory given at the Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona in August 1990. They are the latest in a series of collections that cover the most active fields in economic theory over a five year period...read more

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9780521416665 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: These books comprise papers examining the latest developments in economic theory given at the Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona in August 1990.

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Product Description: These books comprise papers examining the latest developments in economic theory given at the Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona in August 1990. They are the latest in a series of collections that cover the most active fields in economic theory over a five year period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521430197 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book comprises the second volume of papers presented at the Sixth World congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona in August 1990.

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9780521484602 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $64.99 | About this edition: This book comprises the second volume of papers presented at the Sixth World congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona in August 1990.
9780521484596 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: These books comprise papers examining the latest developments in economic theory given at the Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona in August 1990.

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Product Description: Game theory and the economics of information have significantly transformed the theory of industrial organization in the last decade. The aim of this book is to show how these new techniques have improved the modelling of a wide range of essential aspects of economic activity...read more

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9780631169673 | Blackwell Pub, July 1, 1991, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: Game theory and the economics of information have significantly transformed the theory of industrial organization in the last decade.

Product Description: Applied microeconomics has become an increasingly important focus of economic research, employing rigorous statistical techniques to test sophisticated economic theories. This volume presents a survey of recent work combining methodology with empirical studies...read more

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9780631169659 | Blackwell Pub, April 1, 1991, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: Applied microeconomics has become an increasingly important focus of economic research, employing rigorous statistical techniques to test sophisticated economic theories.

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Discusses risk and economic uncertainty, the theory of contingent markets, model systems of incomplete markets, and the use of the stock market and insurance to share risk

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9780262121361 | Mit Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Discusses risk and economic uncertainty, the theory of contingent markets, model systems of incomplete markets, and the use of the stock market and insurance to share risk

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Product Description: This text by one of Europe's leading economists covers a wide variety of public economics issues with great clarity and precision, illustrating them with a wealth of carefully-chosen examples and problems. Starting from theories of general equilibrium analysis, Laffont considers issues of market failure, collective decisionmaking, and distributional equity...read more

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9780262512190 | Revised edition (Mit Pr, March 24, 1988), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This text by one of Europe's leading economists covers a wide variety of public economics issues with great clarity and precision, illustrating them with a wealth of carefully-chosen examples and problems.

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Product Description: This text by one of Europe's leading economists covers a wide variety of public economics issues with great clarity and precision, illustrating them with a wealth of carefully-chosen examples and problems. Starting from theories of general equilibrium analysis, Laffont considers issues of market failure, collective decisionmaking, and distributional equity...read more

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9780262121279 | Mit Pr, March 24, 1988, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: This text by one of Europe's leading economists covers a wide variety of public economics issues with great clarity and precision, illustrating them with a wealth of carefully-chosen examples and problems.

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