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Evaluating the Impact of Online Market Integration-Evidence from the EU Portable PC Market

Néstor Duch-Brown, Lukasz Grzybowski, Andre Romahn and Frank Verboven
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Néstor Duch-Brown: JRC - European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Seville]

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Abstract: We develop a framework to evaluate the impact of market integration, accounting for spillovers between multiple distribution channels. Our adaptation of the standard random coefficients logit demand model allows for substitution between distribution channels and incorporates consumer arbitrage across countries. We apply our framework to the European portable PC market, where geo-blocking practices that restrict online cross-border trade have recently been banned. The distributional effects from the crosscountry price convergence are substantial. Consumers in high income countries gain most, while consumers in medium and low income countries are only marginally better or even worse off. The total consumer and welfare gains from reducing cross-border arbitrage costs are more modest, and mainly due to increased product choice rather than reduced price discrimination.

Date: 2022-09-19
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Journal Article: Evaluating the Impact of Online Market Integration—Evidence from the EU Portable PC Market (2023) Downloads
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