Research Catalog

Title

Understanding and regulating the market at a time of globalization : the case of the cement industry / Hervé Dumez and Alain Jeunemaître ; foreword by Suzanne Berger.

Author

Dumez, Hervé.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Jeunemaître, Alain.

Description

xv, 238 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

"How and why does a market globalize? How do (antitrust) competition and trade policies speed up or slow down the process? How do producers and distributors take part in globalization? This book offers a clear understanding of the phenomenon based on a thorough study of the cement industry." "This book raises issues often neglected by academics and regulatory authorities, in particular the importance of multimarket rivalry."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Foreign trade regulation
• Competition, International
• Cement industries > Government policy > Case studies
• International trade

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-228) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Suzanne Berger. 1. The cement industry: a model case -- I. Local competition. 2. Stabilising local competition. 3. Local market stabilisation and rivalry. 4. Local market stabilisation and competition policy. 5. Concluding comments -- II. Globalisation of local markets. 6. The internal conditions of globalisation. 7. The globalisation process. 8. Strategic responses to globalisation. 9. Concluding comments -- III. Understanding and regulating markets at a time of globalisation. 10. The European case. Postface / F. M. Scherer.

ISBN

0312226225 (cloth)

LCCN

99015385

OCLC

ocm41176617

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries