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Market segmentation, market integration, and tacit collusion

dc.contributor.authorColonescu, Constantin
dc.contributor.authorSchmitt, Nicolas
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-08
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-27T01:15:36Z
dc.date.available2022-05-27T01:15:36Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractMoving from market segmentation to market integration (firms cannot discriminate among markets) is shown to have often anticompetitive effects in an infinitely repeated Cournot game. In particular, market integration between two countries leads both of them to experience anticompetitive effects when product markets are similar. The same conclusion holds when trade liberalization is modeled as a decrease in bilateral trade barriers followed by moving from market segmentation to market integration. The analysis also predicts that a less efficient country (like a country in transition) enjoys pro–competitive effects from market integration.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/cgi-bin/SFX/url.pl/8EM
dc.identifier.citationColonescu, C., & Schmitt, N. (2003). Market segmentation, market integration, and tacit collusion. Review of International Economics, 11(1): 175-192. doi:10.1111/1467-9396.00376
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9396.00376
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/572
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjectfree trade
dc.subjectcompetition
dc.titleMarket segmentation, market integration, and tacit collusionen
dc.typeArticle

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