Market Size, Product Differentiation and Bidding for New Varieties

Ma, Jie and Wooton, Ian (2019) Market Size, Product Differentiation and Bidding for New Varieties. Preprint / Working Paper. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

[thumbnail of Ma-Wooton-2019-market-size-product-differentiation-and-bidding-for-new-varieties]
Preview
 Text. Filename: Ma_Wooton_2019_market_size_product_differentiation_and_bidding_for_new_varieties.pdf
Final Published Version
Download (398kB)| Preview

Abstract

We analyse a firm’s investment decision in a regional economy composed of two countries. The firm already manufactures a horizontally differentiated good in the region and we determine the firm’s equilibrium location choice for the new good and the welfare consequences of fiscal competition between the two countries. We find that the firm’s location decision is efficient. Fiscal competition does not affect the location of production but redistributes rents between the firm and the taxpayers of the host country. The implications of endogenous product differentiation and the new good being produced by a competing firm are also considered. As far as we know, the tax competition literature has not previously addressed the issue of product differentiation.

ORCID iDs

Ma, Jie and Wooton, Ian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5084-6379;
  • Item type:Monograph(Preprint / Working Paper)
    ID code:71542
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    28 February 2019
    Published
    Notes:University of Strathclyde, Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 19-03.
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Economic Theory
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Economics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:25 Feb 2020 11:32
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 16:04
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/71542
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)