This paper studies city size in a developing country. The country consists of two regions, a city producing a manufactured good and a rural area producing an agricultural good. Manufacturing can take place either formal or informal sector, the formal sector being characterized by increasing...

The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after the deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on prices and capacities (competition), collude on prices and capacities...

The paper studies the performance of joint ventures where upstreams firms sell inputs to a production joint venture. It is found that joint ventures lead to overinvoicing of input prices (tranfer prices) compared to integrated firms resulting in lower aggregate profits. Tax and tariff policy may...