Research on Frontier Issues of Modern Industrial Economics

Author: Zang Xuheng
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Frontier Issues in Modern Industrial Economics is composed of 40 papers written by Professor Zang Xuheng, Editor-in-Chief of Industrial Economics Review and Director of the Institute of Industrial Economics at Shandong University, Professor Lin Ping, Head of the Department of Economics at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and others. It is divided into six parts: Reviews, Industrial Organization Theory and Cases, Antitrust and Government Regulation, Firms, Firm Growth, and Relationship Networks, Industrial Agglomeration, Clusters, and Competitiveness, and Other Issues in Industrial Economics. The papers focus on the theoretical analysis and empirical exploration of major practical issues in China's economic reform and opening-up, or the industrial economics of the economic and social transition process. One of the distinctive features of this book is its strong emphasis on in-depth reviews of significant research topics at the forefront of academic research. Among the 40 articles included in this collection, 6 are such reviews. For example, Tan Guofu's paper Economic Theory of Vertical Restraints was written for the Competition Bureau of Canada, where he previously served as the Chief Economist. The author team of this book spans multiple countries and regions, including China, the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Japan, and Hong Kong, China.