We are looking into the evolution of cooperation and competition between airlines and railroads, in the context of rail … deregulation, with the tools provided by network economics. After looking at the progress of rail deregulation in Europe, we … airlines and railroads considered as networks industries. In this light, we then analyse their possible strategies in a context …

participants respond to those factors. Although airlines are the main actors, the airports are by no means passive, and their … strategies will also have an impact on airline behaviour and route development. Our methodology analyzes the potential evolution …

commission, can have an impact on competitive and collusive behaviour on the part of the railway operators and airlines. Since …

participants respond to those factors. Although airlines are the main actors, the airports are by no means passive, and their … strategies will also have an impact on airline behaviour and route development. Our methodology analyzes the potential evolution …

Import price elasticity tends to be under-estimated due to the omission of quality effects. This dissertation aims to … fill this gap by analyzing 1) how quality effects affect the estimation of import price elasticity, 2) the impact of … quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy and 3) the limitations pertaining to the estimation of the true …

Traditional trade models ignoring the dimension of product quality generally lead to excessively low trade price … obtained by controlling product quality in trade equations. To do so, we have estimated trade equations including a product … quality proxy derived from survey data. Our estimation results, based on panel data for the four main EU member States …

results show that public subsidies enable the e-learning organization to provide quality-based and pricing strategies that … impact on the global level of quality which is provided by both providers. Nevertheless, our welfare analysis underlines …