industries are organized. Based on a simple model including monitoring and trade costs, we argue that a complementary …

If trade costs matter for trade, and if distance matters for at least some trade costs, then location matters for trade … regimes arise in this model, depending on trade costs compared to differences in autarky prices. These range from complete … first identify these regimes in terms of the parameter values, including trade costs, that are needed for their occurrence …

model with trade costs. It then extends a result from Deardorff (1980) and Dixit and Norman (1980) to include trade costs … trade model with product differentiation in order to make the potential role of trade costs more explicit, both …

Retail Markets and Trade Costs ∗ Bo Sandemann Rasmussen † June 9, 2004 Abstract E-commerce in physical goods enhances the …-competitive gains, trade diversion, commodity taxation, physical goods, trade costs. JEL: H25, L12, F13. ∗ This paper was written during …-to-business (B2B) trade to B2C e-commerce higher trade costs are incurred. At the same time tax revenues will be affected and all …