Strategic competition and optimal parallel import policy
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Strategic competition and optimal parallel import policy
In a two-country Hotelling type duopoly model of price competition, we show that parallel import (PI) policy can act as an instrument of strategic trade policy. The home firm’s profit is higher when it cannot price discriminate internationally if and only if the foreign market is sufficiently bigger than the domestic one. The key mechanism in the model is that the home firm’s incentive to keep ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0008-4085,1540-5982
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01735.x