Market integration in network industries

Ana Mauleon, Vincent Vannetelbosch and Cecilia Vergari ()

No 2008025, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: What is the effect of product market integration on the market equilibrium in the presence of international network externalities in consumption? To address this question, we set up a spatial two-country model and we find that the economic forces at work may have an ambiguous effect on prices.

Keywords: compatibility; horizontal differentiation; network effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05-01
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