This paper explains the increasing difference between the profit margins of differentiated and undifferentiated Greek food manufacturing industries between 1988 and 1994, using panel data. The 2SLS results for the fixed effects model show important differences across the high, medium and low...

This paper uses firm level data to examine the market power versus efficiency hypothesis by taking into consideration both the long-run behavior of profitability and the possible endogeneity bias among profitability, market share, and advertising variables. In a sample of 266 Greek food...

The conventional framework for cross-sectional studies of industrial organisation focuses on the hypothesised relations among structure, conduct and performance (SCP). This paper investigates these relationships for the food and beverage manufacturing industries in a European country, i.e.,...

In this article the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) theorem in its both the ‘commodity’ and the ‘factor content’ version is examined under the existence of non-factor price equalisation conditions in the bilateral trade between two countries, in a model with three countries and many commodities....

The paper analyses the effect on the structure of trade and specialisation of Greek manufacture due to the implementation of the Singie Market Programme (SMP). The period examined was from 1981 to 1992. First, it was found that in most sectors double trade creation (internal and external) has...

This paper examines the effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on tourist flows into Turkey for the period of 1994~2012. Our results show that (i) there is a negative relationship between exchange rate volatility and tourist inflows into Turkey; (ii) there is a negative impact of the relative price...

This paper examines the effect of exchange rate volatility for a set of three European countries, Germany, Sweden and the UK, on sectoral exports for the period 1973 q1-2010 q4. In addition to the standard deviation of moving average of the logarithm of the exchange rate, a new measure capturing...