THE openness of the US economy appears to be secularly increasing.
IN industrial organization, it is commonly accepted that concentration ratios are useful indices of market power and that a positive relationship exists between these indices and profitability.
THE nature of the relationship between world prices, tariff protection and domestic prices is of importance to economic theory and policy.
THIS paper examines the effect of import competition on the profitability of a cross-section of 32 manufacturing industries in the United Kingdom.
THIS study is an examination of the factors which explain the inter-industry variation of the productivity of Canadian manufacturing industries relative to the productivity of counterpart indust
SELLER-CONCENTRATION plays a major role in most theories of market-behavior and market-performance.
THE lowering of tariffs among the European Community (EC) countries in the I96os provides a splendid laboratory experiment on the relation between international trade and industrial organization