, Germany's exports are less vulnerable to price increases, while exports from France and Italy respond strongly to price … European countries? We explore the organisational responses to competition of 14,000 exporting firms in seven European … Europe followed by Austria and Spain. Among the top 10 percent of exporters there is no single firm with low quality in …

(départements and provinces) in France and Italy. We propose a measure of the degree of competiveness in each local market that is …This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level …

We present a theoretical model in tourism economics, assuming that the market for tourism is an oligopoly with … capacity that can be interpreted as the stock of physical, natural or cultural resources. Tourism flows yield current revenues … questions, like the choice between mass- vs. elite-tourism development strategies; the effect of the number of competing …