The analysis of asymmetries in the price transmission mechanism at different levels of the marketing chain provides some interesting information about the degree of competition in vertical related markets. The objective of this paper is to investigate the non-linear adjustments of prices along...

This paper has analysed the import demand for virgin olive oil in the EU andmore precisely in the Italian market, as it concentrates more than 80% of EU imports,aiming to determine the relative position of Mediterranean EU and non-EU countriesexports and their degree of substitutability or...