Industrial organization, trade, and social interaction essays in honour of B. Curtis Eaton /
edited by Gregory K. Dow, Andrew Eckert, and Douglas S. West.
- Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010).
- 1 online resource (viii, 300 pages : illustrations)
Includes bibliographical references.
B. Curtis Eaton's contributions to the economics of information / Entry deterrence via contracts / The spatial evolution of Alberta's privatized liquor store industry / Shopper city / The interaction between education, skilled migration, and trade / Differentiated products, international trade, and simple general equilibrium effects / A tale of two cities : cyclical movements in price and productivity in mining and manufacturing / Image building / Worker participation and adverse selection / Signalling risk tolerance : nuclear arsenals and alliance formation in the Cold War / Social learning in a model of adverse selection / Intertemporal discounting with Veblen preferences : theory and evidence / Richard G. Lipsey -- Ralph A. Winter -- Andrew Eckert, Douglas S. West -- Richard Arnott, Yundong Tu -- Richard G. Harris, Peter E. Robertson -- Simon P. Anderson, Nicolas Schmitt -- Harry Bloch -- B. Curtis Eaton, William D. White -- Gregory K. Dow -- Cliff T. Bekar ... [and others -- Jasmina Arifovic, Alexander Karaivanov -- Mukesh Eswaran, Rob Oxoby.
"B. Curtis Eaton is one of Canada's leading microeconomists. As an applied economic theorist, Eaton has contributed greatly to industrial organization literature and has also worked in labour economics, economic geography, and organizational theory. The essays in this volume, by former students and present and former colleagues, call attention to the path-breaking work of Professor Eaton. The first two chapters provide a short overview of Eaton's research contributions and argue that his work laid the foundation for important research programs across the country. The remaining chapters, including an unpublished paper by Eaton himself, consist of original work that can be divided into the three broad categories of industrial organization and spatial competition, trade and productivity, and social interaction. Not only a collection of laudatory essays, Industrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction presents cutting edge research by leading scholars."--Jacket.