R ormr 研討日期

2012年2月18日10:20 ~ 13:00

研討地點

台灣大學社會科學院   第26教室

題目

Gains from trade in a Hotelling model of differentiated duopoly

作者

Kenji Fujiwara

文獻出處

Working paper

報告人

林晏如

參加人員

黃鴻、林燕淑、陳宏易、吳芝文、彭正浩、張瑞雲、蔡明芳、高國峯、陳金盛、林晏如、王羿傑、丁虹仁、徐靖、張志瑋、呂得成、林季萱、施姵全

摘要

  Is trade liberalization beneficial? This is one of the central topics in international economics. This paper reconsiders Clarke and Collie’s(2003) result in Hotelling’s (1929) spatial model of differentiated Bertrand duopoly, which is another benchmark model in industrial organization.

  Constructing a tow-country Hotelling model of spatial duopoly, this paper explores welfare effects of bilateral reductions in transport cost. This paper show that welfare in trade is necessarily less than welfare in autarky for any level of trade cost, which sharply contrasts Clarke and Collie (2003) prove Pareto superiority of any trade over autarky in a non-address model.

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