We examine interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a linkage between service-sector competition and goods trade, one supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 OECD countries vis-à-vis 69 exporters. This points to linkages between market access conditions for goods and the structure of the service sector. Competition in...

TWIK2 ion channels (K2P6.1, encoded by a gene named Kcnk6) belong to the family of two-pore domain potassium channels. TWIK2 is also considered as a “silent” channel because of its inability to produce measurable currents in heterologous expression systems and its intracellular retention. It is expressed in different mammalian tissues including lymphoid organs and the vascular syste...

The rapid technological changes taking place is impacting business practice across all business sectors. E-commerce has become the norm and business models have slowly evolved to take account of the electronic business world. The electronic infrastructure and channels of e-commerce are particularly suited to information based goods and services, after these services are just pushing electronic ...

We extend the trade model with firm heterogeneity developed by Melitz and Ottaviano (2008), incorporating domestic and imported intermediate goods, in order to investigate the impact of import barriers on final and intermediate goods on firms’ decisions to produce and to export. Our main contribution is to disentangle the channels through which these trade policies work. When variable trade cos...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems occupy huge bandwidths with very low power spectral densities. This feature makes the UWB channels highly rich in resolvable multipaths. To exploit the temporal diversity, the receiver is commonly implemented through a Rake. The aim to capture enough signal energy to maintain an acceptable output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) dictates a very complicated ...

ABSTRACT Today most companies do not sell their goods directly to the final user. Instead many of the tasks which include distribution activities such as transportation and storage, but also marketing activities such as selling and pricing are undertaken by a variety of external intermediaries. The choice and control of these intermediaries we call marketing channel management. Marketing channe...

This paper tests for the e¤ects of increased trade and …nancial integration on business cycle co-movement. Using both quantitative theory and a reduced form empirical approach motivated by the theory, I measure and explain the channels from bilateral trade integration, …nancial integration, and industrial specialization to cyclical co-movement. The model is also used to measure the causal chann...

With China's rapid development of e-commerce and logistics, many large electronic business enterprises start to establish large volume warehouses. It takes a long time to distribute the goods every time, so the optimal distribution link can save a lot of time and it has important practical significance. In order to optimize goods inventory and delivery, the electronic commerce goods shopping ca...