El objetivo del trabajo es determinar la existencia y magnitud de las economías de escala, internas y externas, y los márgenes entre precio y coste marginal en la industria española, durante el período 1964- 1989. Los resultados obtenidos para 13 de los 14 sectores industriales de NACE-CLIO...

This paper constitutes an approach to the behavior of prices of the main exporters of tiles in the European markets. As in prior research studies, the analysis is based on the control of marginal costs, cross section data, and the data at an industry level, but with the particularity that the...

This paper takes into account the presence of oligopolistic rivalry between exporters to evaluate their pricing to market behavior. We specify the pricing policy as a simultaneous equation model, which captures the effects of possible interactions in multiple destination markets. The use of...

In this paper, we suggest a method to test price-fixing agreements. Prices fixed to multiple shipments are decomposed into a set of destination market effects and time effects in order to allow us to perform an analysis of residuals. We examine the pricing behavior of vitamin C in the European...

The focus of this paper is to analyze the evolution of spatial distribution of aggregate economic activity in the European Union during the period 1980-2002. The proposed methodology has as basis to incorporate, systematically, both the distance and the spatial interdependence among the analyzed...

The choice of a particular technology when there is a set of them available to firms has not appeared in the R&D literature yet. We show some examples and present a model in which firms choose their technologies from a continuum of available profiles and the resulting spillovers depend on the...