This paper focuses on the problems posed by the uniform price and market cream skimming in a context in which the incumbent is restricted asymmetric prices and products and analyzes the risks of a graveyard spiral process. We point that the price elasticity of demand, the brand loyalty and the...

Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian Community. The interest in this type of cultural...

At the turn of the century, the tourism industry underwent a transformation triggered by the sweeping processes of globalization. The traditional forms of tourism were supplemented and expanded by the introduction of new postmodern tourist forms, bringing new and different tourist offers to the...

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...

The objective of this study is to trace the impact on the behavior of the children after watching cartoon programs. Cartoon network is one of the most favorite cartoon channels for children. As cartoon network is 24 hours channel, so children spend most of their leisure time in front of it. It...

Preisgarantien im Einzelhandel scheinen auf den ersten Blick Ergebnis eines intensiven Wettbewerbs zu sein. Theoretische Analysen und empirische Studien zeigen jedoch, dass dies in der Regel nicht der Fall ist. Preisgarantien und hier vor allem Garantien, bei denen mehr als die Differenz zu...

In the early days of nationalization, it seemed axiomatic that price and quality standards could be better managed by State Owned Enterprises (SOE). Subsequent experience, however demonstrates that public ownership and control are different as the challenges of imposing effective public...

Subsahara-Afrika gilt als Musterregion für hohe Wachstumsraten der Mobilfunk-Nutzung. Zwischen 2000 und 2011 haben mehr als 500 Millionen Menschen in der Region Zugang zu Mobilfunknetzen erhalten, schätzt die Internationalen Fernmeldeunion (ITU). Ihr zufolge sind von 2005 bis 2010 die mobilen...

Cartelists operate in an uncertain environment, facing market demand uncertainty and the possibility of being detected by the antitrust agency. We develop a dynamic model in which an incumbent cartel decides whether or not to voluntarily dissolve the cartel based on the observed profit and the...