Even so, says Garel Rhys, professor of motor-industry economics at Cardiff University, car makers keep investing in Britain.
While structural issues such as regulation, sovereign finance, antitrust or citizenship restrictions on investment have various effects on the airline industry's finances, neither the private nor public sector has advanced a comprehensive analytically-based framework to optimise industry economics.
Garel Rhys, professor of motor industry economics at Cardiff University Business School, points to a swathe of recent investments by Ford, Honda and others, made even though it was clear that Britain would not be in the euro from the outset.
In the water industry the economics are somewhat different, explains Stefan Helmcke, a water expert at McKinsey.
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An attractive feature of the industry's economics is the annuity-like income generated from renewals.
Game developers say the industry's economics are shifting, turning the business of cranking out ever costlier "Triple A" games with top-notch stories and graphics into an ever dicier proposition.
While some will say it's a reach to use the baseball-card industry to explain economics, the economy as we know it is merely the combination of infinite individual decisions made on a daily basis, including those made with baseball cards.
Once the industry-wide scamming or skimming is revealed, the economics of the industry involved are radically altered.
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However, industry skeptics say the economics and the safety of the concept remain untested.
Chirayudh Vasuratna, the head of the Senate committee on economics and industry, says he has seen documents relating to this particular transaction.
The industry's difficult economics have been evident at times at the World-Herald.
Or perhaps political instability, a perennial wild card, will resurface and skew the economics of the industry once again.
As gaming moves online, the economics of the industry are changing.
Just this: Two guys or gals in a garage can invent a product that suddenly pulls the rug out from under the prevailing economics of an industry.
Her current research examines women's game play, the economics of the videogame industry and pedagogical uses of games.
The economics of the vaccine industry, he points out, are much like those of software: the marginal cost of each new product is very small.
Lastly, recall from earlier this week my post on the economics of the professional golf industry.
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The product and its pricing, as well as the economics and ethics of the industry are all changing.
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Due to the economics of the pension management industry, where far more money can be made from selling products to pensions than from in-depth investigations of investment wrongdoing, there is a chorus of voices denying problems exist and discouraging meaningful investigations.
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Ominously, this is an industry often driven by ego rather than hard economics.
However, despite the resistance to allowing the laws of economics to operate in the healthcare industry, their reality cannot be denied forever.
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He disagreed that this was good for competition in the books markets and said that the "economics of the e-book industry is quite different to the print industry" because costs are the same up until first copy but after that e-books incur none of costs of printing and distribution.
"I think it could absolutely transform the industry, " Benjamin Shiller, a professor in economics at Brandeis University, told the BBC.
Economics or Freakonomics of the money management industry: There are vast sums of money and substantial market forces at work misleading pensions.
Lady Thatcher's government privatised much of Britain's state-owned industry and ushered in a new era of free market economics, a policy followed by many other governments around the world.
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"This is an industry where if you get your costs out of line and business is not so good, you're dead, " says Sam Peltzman, a University of Chicago business school economics professor who studies labor and the airline industry.
The sex industry, ever innovative, has proved a trailblazer in the economics of new technologies.
Among the likely winners in the fragmented and mostly small-scale fish producing industry are either suppliers to farmers or companies that can obtain economics of scale in ocean fishing.
It must be a good business, to judge from the facts about watch economics that can be teased from other players in the industry.
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