Evens Salies

A test of the Schumpeterian hypothesis in a panel Of European electric utilities

This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall’s view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into entrepreneurship and clarify some misunderstanding about Schumpeter’s ideas. The book goes on to shed light on the classical specialisation-flexibility trade-off and provides a vision on the role of the knowledge-based economy and firm networks in technology development. Firm survival and performance, price-cost margins and the determinants of research intensity are also investigated econometrically.

Mergers in the GB Electricity MArket: effects on Retail Charges

The opening up of the UK residential electricity sector in 1999 prompted several studies of the impact this had on both the level and structuring of retail charges, and on incumbent players’ market power. Drawing on observations of regional tariffs for the month of January 2004, this article supports previous conclusions based on simulated retail charges, looking at the response of real tariffs to distribution and transmission costs, customer density and the length of low voltage underground circuit. We also investigate whether vertically integrated suppliers have a particular effect on charges ceteris paribus the effect of cost drivers and supplier-related factors.

Why and How Should New Industries with High Consumer Switching Costs be Regulated? The Case of Broadband Internet in France

Affiliations: Jackie Krafft: University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, CNRS-GREDEG, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France; Tel: +33(0)4.93.95.41.70; Fax: +33(0).4.93.65.37.98; Email: jackie.krafft@gredeg.cnrs.fr. Evens Salies: Departement of Research on Innovation and Competition, Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne. Tel: +33(0)4.93.95.41.52; Fax: +33(0)4.93.65.37.98; E-mail: evens.salies@ofce.sciencespo.fr

Innovation, Economic Growth and the Firm

This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall’s view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into entrepreneurship and clarify some misunderstanding about Schumpeter’s ideas. The book goes on to shed light on the classical specialisation-flexibility trade-off and provides a vision on the role of the knowledge-based economy and firm networks in technology development. Firm survival and performance, price-cost margins and the determinants of research intensity are also investigated econometrically.