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...

In this paper, we propose a non-cumulative function for evaluating the spatial concentration of economic activity. This function, which we have called the M marginal function, comes from the tradition of spatial statistics but, at the same time, incorporates some key features from the economic...

In this paper we examine how different host country characteristics affect the location decision of Spanish multinational firms in developing and transition countries, particular attention being paid to the sectoral composition of foreign direct investments (FDI). The estimation of a set of...

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...