market competition intensifies. Data from Italian pharmacies confirm these predictions. Monthly fluctuations in the number of … an increase in competition has a significant and negative effect on the capacity of sellers to extract surplus from less …

the last decade (1996-2005), export unit values have overestimated export price dynamics by 2 percentage points on average …The unsatisfactory performance of Italian export volumes in the last decade has been attributed to three factors; the … product specialization still centered around traditional sectors, the small firm size and the exceptional rise in export unit …