Die Dissertationsarbeit hat zum Ziel, die Gültigkeit der Aussagen eines außenhandelstheoretischen Ansatzes der Neo-Heckscher-Ohlin-Modellklasse in der realen Welt zu überprüfen. Der gewählte Modellierungstyp erlaubt die Koexistenz internationalen intra- und inter-industriellen Handels. Da...

Traditional recommendations for building sustainable competitive advantages revolve around differentiating a product from the competition along attributes that are important and relevant to customers. However, strategic approaches based on such notions do not represent viable options for...

In this article, the impact of common labels is investigated with both theoretical and empirical approaches. Recent statistics regarding the egg market in France suggest that retailer brands largely adopt common labels. A simple theoretical framework enables us to determine the conditions under...

The lack of transparency in the pricing and operational activities of state trading enterprises (STEs) has caused members of the World Trade Organization to express concern that certain countries’ STEs might circumvent Uruguay Round commitments on export subsidies, domestic support, or market...

In this paper, we develop a model of strategic delegation in which shareholders maintain an objective of market value maximization (MVM) of the firm's assets as measured by a capital asset pricing model (CAPM). Optimal delegation requires that managers maximize a linear combination of expected...

Within the context of liberalisation experienced by the Malian economy sincethe beginning of the 1990s, spatial integration of cereal markets has beenconsidered as a major tool as to avoid localised shortages due to productionshortfalls. However, market dynamic reveals since then new patterns:...

Given that existing food eco-labels are still not well defined in consumers' experience, there is potential for new labels to generate more confusion. Consumers incur fixed costs to learn about a label's meaning. Market shares for existing certifications may be eroded by perceptions that new...

The ready-to-eat cereal industry is characterized by high concentration, high price-cost margins, large advertising to sales ratios, and numerous introductions of new products. Previous researchers have concluded that the ready-to-eat cereal industry is a classic example of an industry with...