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International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies

Establishing a Cournot international duopoly model where a firm from a landlocked country (LC) and a firm from a costal country (CC) compete in a third-country market, we analyze international rivalry between the two firms. Since the LC country has no sea port,its firm incurs extra costs to export...

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Main Authors: Bakar, Normizan, Yasunori, Ishii
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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HB Economic Theory
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spelling my.uum.repo.16912010-12-01T03:14:50Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/1691/ International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies Bakar, Normizan Yasunori, Ishii HB Economic Theory Establishing a Cournot international duopoly model where a firm from a landlocked country (LC) and a firm from a costal country (CC) compete in a third-country market, we analyze international rivalry between the two firms. Since the LC country has no sea port,its firm incurs extra costs to export its goods through the CC's port. We assume that the LC's firm adopts a transport-cost reducing R&D activity and its government subsidizes such R&D, whilst the CC imposes a specific toll fee on the LC's firm in rivalry with the R&D of the LC's firm. We find, inter alia, that since a change in the LC's R&D subsidy(the CC's toll fee) has a positive effect on the LC's (CC's) export and a negative effect on the CC's (LC's) export, the R&D subsidy and the toll fee are both effective as strategic export policies and that the optimal levels for these strategic policies are both positive. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/1691/1/Normizan_Bakar%5B1%5D.pdf Bakar, Normizan and Yasunori, Ishii (2010) International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies. In: Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and Industrial Organization, 31 July-1 August 2010, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. http://gcoe.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/events/past_seminars/index.html
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International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies
description Establishing a Cournot international duopoly model where a firm from a landlocked country (LC) and a firm from a costal country (CC) compete in a third-country market, we analyze international rivalry between the two firms. Since the LC country has no sea port,its firm incurs extra costs to export its goods through the CC's port. We assume that the LC's firm adopts a transport-cost reducing R&D activity and its government subsidizes such R&D, whilst the CC imposes a specific toll fee on the LC's firm in rivalry with the R&D of the LC's firm. We find, inter alia, that since a change in the LC's R&D subsidy(the CC's toll fee) has a positive effect on the LC's (CC's) export and a negative effect on the CC's (LC's) export, the R&D subsidy and the toll fee are both effective as strategic export policies and that the optimal levels for these strategic policies are both positive.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Bakar, Normizan
Yasunori, Ishii
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Yasunori, Ishii
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title International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies
title_short International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies
title_full International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies
title_fullStr International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies
title_full_unstemmed International rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies
title_sort international rivalry between landlocked and coastal countries and strategic transportation policies
publishDate 2010
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