Oligopoly, Auctions and Market Quality

• Main Author: Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific,
• Subjects: Globalization.; Markets.; Industrial organization.; Development economics.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Development Economics.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.

This book provides an economic analysis of various aspects of ‘market quality’, a new concept which emerged in the 21st century, using the tools of ‘oligopoly theory’ and ‘auction theory’ that evolved over the 19th and 20th centuries. In the economics literature the link between the theories of olig...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Allocation of scarce resources
• 3 Eects of corruption and incompetence in the quality monitoring process
• 4 On some aspects of scoring auctions
• 5 Some specifc market quality issues in emerging economies
• References
• Index.