In a relatively recent paper, Gehrig and Stenbacka (Eur Econ Rev 51, 77–99, 2007) show that information sharing increases banks’ profits to the detriment of creditworthy entrepreneurs in a model of a banking duopoly with switching costs and poaching. They restrict their analysis to the case...

This paper examines the dynamic process of quality adjustment in cases where the economy lacks a sufficient number of markets for coordinating the level of attributes that configure the qualities of products. It shows that an adjustment process through the development and selection of...

This paper investigates the effects of Greece's European Union (EU) accession and European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entry, as well as R&D intensity and industry concentration on job creation and job destruction in the Greek manufacturing sector. The study is based on firm-level economic...

Bank loans through bank-firm relationship is expected to enhance the performance of firms owing to the possession of private information on the firms that is not readily available to other outside investors. This special relationship is deemed to be very important than equity financing in...

China's import penetration in Chilean markets is higher in unskilled-labor intensive sectors as predicted by traditional endowment-based theories of comparative advantage. However, there is also evidence of within-industry specialization. In particular, high-income countries receive higher...

In der Europäischen Union wie in der Eurozone hat die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Industrie in den vergangenen zehn Jahren deutlich abgenommen. In den einzelnen Mitgliedsstaaten verlief die Entwicklung allerdings unterschiedlich, wie sich insbesondere an einem Vergleich von Deutschland...

It is systemic to expound how that the speculative behaviors are driven by the number of a series housing policies promulgated by China's government for the real estate market. The market is resulted in full of speculative behaviors, and has been booming since the beginning of this decade, even...

With the aim of analysing the seasonality of the Spanish and American film industries, a comparative analysis was made between variables such as release dates in cinemas, and trends in audience figures. The results show that Spanish films have a higher seasonality level than American ones, and...

Internet is commonly accepted as an important aspect in successful tourism promotion as well as destination marketing in this era. The main aim of this study is to explore how online promotion and its influence on destination awareness and loyalty in the tourism industry. This study proposes a...

This study was aimed to obtain creative industries SMEs potentials developed in Cimahi, determine creative industries that could be prioritized as a market leader, obtain ideas of they behaved in utilizing the internet and E-Commerce, and acquire concept models through E-Commerce marketing. The...