The current tendency towards product differentiation in many fields of manufacturing is generally considered to be a positive phenomenon. What we have attempted to do here is to verify the real degree of diversification that exists within the computer industry, by means of the measurement of...

The current tendency towards product differentiation in many areas of manufacturing is generally considered to be a positive phenomenon. What we have attempted to do here is to analyse the real degree of diversification that exists within the vehicles industry (in the case of all those models of...

In this work the authors, after a brief outlook concerning the markets of main energy commodities, propose an alternative mechanism for fuel pricing consisted with a sustainable development. Technological change and technological pluralism, costs and environmental issues are the benchmarks of...

Current financialization process involving commodity markets spurred controversial issues among policy-makers, practitioners and scholars about spillover effects on the price levels, and inherent consequences on the whole economy. In this debate, it is possible to distinguish between two basic...

Over the past two decades increasing transformations involving the commodities pricing mechanisms jointly with relevant innovations introduced in financial markets spurred controversial issues both among policy-makers, practitioners and scholars about resulting overall effects on the economy....