El comercio mundial del plátano y la regulación de las importaciones en la Unión Europea a través de una Organización Común de Mercado ha sido objeto de disputa comercial durante los años noventa entre la UE y Estados Unidos. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el conflicto y las...

Congestion-dependent pricing is a form of traffic management that ensures the efficient allocation of bandwidth between users and applications. As the unpredictability of congestion prices creates revenue uncertainty for network providers and cost uncertainty for users, it has been suggested...

We investigate the widely-used rank-order mechanism for displaying user-generated content, where contributions are displayed on a webpage in decreasing order of their ratings, in a game-theoretic model where strategic contributors benefit from attention and have a cost to quality. We show that...

We analyze pricing and protection (digital rights management) strategies in a two-echelon supply chain that consists of a manufacturer and a retailer of digital products. The demand for the legal (non-pirated) product, which depends on both price and monetary investment in protection, is assumed...

Las políticas agrícolas aplicadas en las últimas décadas por Estados Unidos y la Comunidad han aumentado su participación en el comercio mundial, generando tensiones entre ellos y para con terceros, tensiones que han derivado, en algunos casos, en graves conflictos comerciales. En el...