Cretan olive oil is known for its premium quality worldwide. In the post pandemic international environment, the rising demand for olive oil due to its health benefits has generated greater competition amongst traditionally non-producer and producer countries. Olive oil exports affect both the...

Almost all of the large literature on international trade with imperfect competition assumes exogenous market structures. The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple model that generates alternative market structures as Nash equilibria for different parameterizations of the basic model....

Angesichts einer weiter zunehmenden Bedeutung der Globalisierungsthematik verfolgt diese Arbeit das Ziel, wesentliche Erfolgsfaktoren und Konfliktbereiche des Managements globaler Produkte zu ermitteln. Hierzu wurde vom Verfasser mit Hilfe einer umfangreichen empirischen Untersuchung das...

Almost all of the large literature on international trade with imperfect competition assumes exogenous market structures. The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple model that generates alternative market structures as Nash equilibria for different parameterizations of the basic model....

We study how financial frictions affect firm-level heterogeneity and trade. We build a model where productivity differences across monopolistically competitive firms are endogenous and depend on investment decisions at the entry stage. By increasing entry costs, financial frictions lower the...