This new edition of The Economics of Tourism reflects the tremendous changes that have
occurred in the tourism sector in the last twelve years. It recognizes that the nature of tourism …

The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the
manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing …

Indigenous emerging economy (EE) firms are increasingly competing in global markets or
against multinational corporations (MNCs) in their home markets. But their institutional …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. Chris Marsden maneuvers through …

A ride-sharing platform (RSP), such as Uber or Lyft, can sometimes offer passengers an
option to share (pool) the ride with fellow passengers. On the one hand, a passenger who …

American industries have grown more concentrated over the last 40 years. In the absence of
productivity innovation, this should lead to price hikes and output reductions, decreasing …

Energy infrastructures are increasingly perceived as complex, adaptive socio-technical
systems. Their design has not kept up; it is still fragmented between an engineering and …

Yardstick competition is a regulatory scheme for local monopolists (eg, hospitals), where the
monopolist's reimbursement is linked to performance relative to other equivalent …

The relationship between the size and the variance of firm growth rates is known to follow an
approximate power-law behavior σ (S)≈ S− β (S) where S is the firm size and β (S)≈ 0.2 is …

Much attention has been devoted in the literature to the analysis of price transmission along
food supply chains. Price transmission analysis has traditionally focused on applying …