IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cje/issued/v38y2005i3p870-882.html

Interconnected communications networks and home market effects

Author

Listed:
  • Toru Kikuchi

Abstract

This study develops a model of trade that highlights the effects of the interconnection of country-specific communications networks as a driving force behind trade in high-tech products with positive transport costs. By constructing a two-country model of monopolistic competition with two production factors, it is shown that the locational decisions of firms may magnify the influence of interconnected networks. In a reversal of the standard home market effects, the abundance of unskilled labour in the developing countries can attract high-tech firms from the developed countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Toru Kikuchi, 2005. "Interconnected communications networks and home market effects," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 38(3), pages 870-882, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:38:y:2005:i:3:p:870-882
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-4085.2005.00306.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0008-4085.2005.00306.x
    Download Restriction: access restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.0008-4085.2005.00306.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version below or

    for a different version of it.

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Toru Kikuchi & Kazumichi Iwasa, 2009. "Interregional trade, industrial location and import infrastructure," International Economics and Economic Policy, Springer, vol. 6(4), pages 361-365, December.
    2. repec:ebl:ecbull:v:6:y:2008:i:24:p:1-5 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Toru Kikuchi, 2008. "Distribution Costs, International Trade and Industrial Location," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 6(24), pages 1-5.
    4. Toru Kikuchi & Kazumichi Iwasa, 2011. "Competing Industrial Standards and the Impact of Trade Liberalization," International Economic Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(2), pages 269-284.
    5. Kikuchi, Toru & Iwasa, Kazumichi, 2010. "A simple model of service trade with time zone differences," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 19(1), pages 75-80, January.
    6. Toru Kikuchi & Kazumichi Iwasa, 2009. "Competing Industrial Standards and the Impact of Trade Liberalization:Revised and Enlarged," Discussion Papers 0913, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
    7. Noritsugu Nakanishi & Ngo Van Long, 2015. "The Distributional and Allocative Impacts of Virtual Labor Mobility across Time Zones through Communication Networks," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(3), pages 638-662, August.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:38:y:2005:i:3:p:870-882. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Prof. Werner Antweiler (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ceaaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.