The recent proliferation of inter-firm collaborative linkages within the container port industry is progressively shaping a complex architecture of voluntary ties among terminal operators, i.e. an inter-organizational network. Within the overall industry network, some stable groups of densely interconnected firms emerge suggesting the existence of “cliques” where firms repeatedly cooperate …
This paper constructs a mixed-regime model for dry bulk freight market. Then it performs maximum likelihood estimation and provides the results. Inter alia, the hypothesis that there is bimodality in the supply curve of shipping freight markets is strongly supported by analyzing the effect of the term structure of time-charter rates on the time-varying volatility. Furthermore, the adjustment sp…