I. Demand -- 1 Modeling Seasonal Integrated Time Series: the Spanish Industrial Production Index -- 2 Passenger's Choice of Air Transport under Road Competition: the Use of Cointegration Techniques -- 3 Introduction of an Innovative Product: the High Speed Train (AVE) -- II. Production and Costs (Supply) -- 4 Technical and Allocative Inefficiency in Spanish Public Hospitals -- 5 Technical Efficiency of Road Haulage Firms -- 6 Technological Innovation and Employment: Intersectoral Appraisals of Structural Change in the Service Economy -- III. Market and Industrial Structure -- 7 The Measurement of Intra-industry Trade and Specialisation: a Review -- 8 The Determinants of Intra-industry Trade in Spanish Manufacturing Sectors: a Cross-section Analysis -- 9 Economic Integration, Vertical and Horizontal Intra-industry Trade and Structural Adjustment: the Spanish Experience -- IV. Failures of Market and Industrial Regulation -- 10 Structure, Functioning and Regulation of the Spanish Electricity Sector. The Legal Framework and the New Proposals for Reform -- 11 Effects of a Reduction of Standard Working Hours on Labour Market Performance -- 12 Dynamic Adjustments in a Two-Sector Model -- Annex -- Basic References -- Other References.

Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation aims to serve as a source and work of reference and consultation for the field of Microeconomics in general and of Industrial Organisation in particular. The book consists of four parts: Demand, Production and Costs (Supply), Market and Industrial Structure, and Failures of Market and Industrial Regulation. It combines theoretical concepts and a variety of empirical cases.