Within the context of the study, a firm is said to have an advantage over another if it obtains more customers given they both charge the same price. Further, consumer switching costs imply the larger the difference in the prices charged by the two firms the greater the proportion of consumers...

Since the mid-1990s, Japan has instituted a series of policy reforms in order to encourage greater university participation in commercial activity. Using data from a survey of scientists in engineering and biomedical fields in Japanese universities, we find that there has been a significant...

This empirical study investigates the effects of different agri-environmental schemes on individual producer behaviour. We consider the effects on production intensity, performance and structure for a sample of UK cereal farms for the period 2000 to 2009 and use the policy examples of the...