This paper analyzes the impact of container shipping alliances on the market stability of prices and volumes in the event of an unexpected shock. Given two complementary or substitutable ports in which oligopolistic liners are operating, an alliance between complementary liners, referred to as...

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The current study explores the asymmetric cost behaviour in US shipping industry. More precisely, it investigates whether various categories of expenses show asymmetric behaviour after increases or decreases in the stream of their revenues and examines the impact of leverage on managers'...

Purpose - Since 2000, China, along with the USA, UK, France, Japan and many other developed countries have drawn up new blueprints for the development of a marine economy. At present, international marine economics research has entered into a new period of development, and the research methods...