For many years, the air travel market has been the most regulated sector of the economy. Within the last few decades, it has undergone profound change, which is largely a consequence of changes in the law. Another factor that exerted influence on the market was the popularization of new...

Globalization disrupted the seemingly solid construction emerged in the aftermath of WW II, called the international trade system. For over fifty years, the system grew constantly thanks to the increasing number of countries that joint it as well as to its ubiquitously-accepted rules. For better...

Many tourism destinations have enacted and implemented laws to protect residents as consumers that are relevance to tourists as consumers. In literature, consumer protection is not explicitly considered and analyzed in the area of destination competitiveness by research ers. This research...

The current paper aims to investigate the relation between competit ion and online purchasing decision-making, integrating consumer protection awareness and the corresponding consumer behavior as mediators. The focus is on both subjective and objective measures related to the level of consumer...

Currently most of international shipments need to use more than one type of transportation from its point of origin to final destination. Each one of the types of global transport has played an essential role in facilitating geographic diversification. In this paper we evaluate, through...

This article investigates how sectorial characteristics determine the probability of industries receiving an anti-dumping (AD) duty, delving into the economic literature on the political economy of protection, market competition and trade reform in Brazil. By focusing on when the AD was granted,...

The present paper aims to address a demand-side perspective of bioeconomy by laying emphasis on the digitalization of markets and, subsequently, on the consumption patterns at the macroeconomic scale. The imperative for a sustainable economic model corroborated with the advances in digital...

In der öffentlichen Diskussion wird der Freihandel infolge der gegenwärtigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen China und den USA oft als ein Wert an sich betrachtet. Nüchtern gesehen ist er aber nur ein Verfahren, das nach allen Erfahrungen aus Theorie und Empirik Wohlstand erzeugen kann. Aber es...

Fairtrade-Siegel sollen die Einkommen und Lebensbedingungen von ProduzentInnen erhöhen und so zu mehr Gerechtigkeit im internationalen Handel führen. Ökonomische Überlegungen und empirische Untersuchungen zeigen jedoch, dass dieses Ziel bei Kaffee nur eingeschränkt erreicht wird: Das...