Do large cities suffer from even greater incidence of crime? According to Bettencourt, et al. (2007), the number of crime follows super-linear relationship as a function of city size. For example, if the population size increases by 100%, the incidence of crime may increase by 120%. We analyzed...

Do large cities suffer from an even greater incidence of crime? According to the Urban Scaling Theory, the number of crimes committed may follow a superlinear relationship as a function of the population size of city. For example, if the population size increases by 100%, the incidence of crime...

How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization...

For the first time, the effects of regional trading preferences on members and on the rest of the world are investigated by examining their effects on the prices at which trade occurs. The case studies how Spanish accession to the European Community affected the prices of imports from the...

Price data on exports to Brazil from countries excluded from MERCOSUR show that preferential trading agreements hurt nonmember countries by compelling them to reduce their prices to meet competition from suppliers within the regional trading bloc.The welfare effects of preferential trading...

How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. The authors try to measure these effects internationally by examining the price behavior of the United States in Brazil's market when MERCOSUR...