Understanding the effects of competition among Internet service providers on the availability and quality of broadband is important for policies aimed at decreasing the digital divide. To improve this understanding, I develop and estimate a structural model of vertical differentiation using...

This paper develops a demand function for Greece’s exports of manufactures according to New Trade Theory. The sample covers a rather long period of four decades with exports aggregated based on industrial rather than on trade classification. The study contributes to a better understanding of...

Identifying major driving factors of a country's export performance is challenging. In particular, existing empirical evidence on the role of non-price competitiveness (NPC) remains inconclusive and fragmented. This study aims to address this issue by examining the consistency and validity of...

This paper examines how pharmaceutical firms have responded to changes in intellectual property rights and trade barriers that legalized "parallel imports" within the European Union. The threat of arbitrage by parallel traders reduces the ability of firms to price discriminate across countries....