Competing Communications Networks and International Trade

Marcelo Fukushima () and Toru Kikuchi
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Marcelo Fukushima: Kobe University, Postal: Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, 1-12-, 15-103 Fukae Honmachi, Higashi Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, 658-0021, Japan

Journal of Economic Integration, 2008, vol. 23, 91-103

Abstract:

This paper investigates the effects of competing communication networks on trade patterns in a Chamberlinian-Ricardian model of monopolistically competitive firms with a continuum of industries that require communication services in production. We conclude that intraindustry trade between different networks is determined by the relative size of networks and technological differences, and that a network will not have an incentive to expand indefinitely, despite network externalities.

Keywords: Competing communications networks; International trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 F12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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