Market integration and network industries

Ana Mauleon, Vincent Vannetelbosch and Cecilia Vergari ()

No 2008018, Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) from Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques

Abstract: What is the effect of product market integration on the market equilibrium in the presence of international 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)
Pages: 13
Date: 2008-06-01
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