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Sizing Up the Impact of Embassies on Exports
Ferguson, Shon; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
-based model where firms are heterogeneous with respect to productivity and must pay a beachhead cost to enter a foreign market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887089
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Vertical Distribution, Parallel Trade, and Price Divergence in Integrated Markets
Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005
We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets that are integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). The manufacturing firm needs to set these two prices to balance three competing interests: restricting competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207061
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Globalization and the Inequality of Nations
Krugman, Paul; Venables, Anthony J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611599
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Firm Heterogeneity and Country Size Dependent Market Entry Cost
Åkerman, Anders; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
in line with data. First, the average productivity of firms located in a market increases in the size of the market …. Second, the productivity of exporters is U-shaped with reference to export market size. Third, the productivity premium (the … difference in average productivity) between exporters and non-exporters decreases in the home country size. Fourth, we derive a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964393
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Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-Region Firms.
Ekholm, K.; Forslid, R. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
This paper analyses the effect on agglomeration tendencies of allowing firms to become multi-region firms in a standard model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core-periphery (CP) model developed by Krugman (1991). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486492
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National Standards and International Trade
Ganslandt, Mattias; Markusen, James R. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Standards and technical regulations which govern the admissibility of imported goods into an economy raise costs of exporters entering new markets, and may have a particularly high impact on firms seeking to export from developing countries. Yet standards may also have a positive side, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419505
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Reciprocal Dumping with Bertrand Competition
Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005
This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated goods. We show that welfare is a U-shaped function in the transport cost as long as trade occurs in equilibrium. With a Cournot duopoly trade can reduce welfare compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419553
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Strategic Investment and Market Integration.
Ganslandt, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
The competitive effect of international market integration in industries with imperfect competition is of great policy interest. This paper focuses on the link between monopolization and market segmentation. It presents a model of multi-market entry deterrence with or without market commitments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639291
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National Standards and International Trade.
Ganslandt, M; Markusen, J.R. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Standards and technical regulations which govern the admissibility of imported goods into an economy raise costs of exporters entering new markets, and may have a particularly high impact on firms seeking to export from developing countries. Yet standards may also have a positive side, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639307
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Strategic Investment and Market Integration
Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
The competitive effect of international market integration in industries with imperfect competition is of great policy interest. This paper focuses on the link between monopolization and market segmentation. It presents a model of multi-market entry deterrence with or without market commitments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645352