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Basing Point Pricing, Competition and Market Integration

In: Does Economic Space Matter?

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  • Louis Phlips

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‘Americans generally consider apple pie, hot dogs, and baseball to be uniquely theirs in origin. Less pride of origin is assigned to the Basing Point System, originally known as Pittsburgh-Plus.’ This is how Greenhut (1987) started his lively description of the origins and competitive properties of the single basing point system as practised in the United States. Let me suggest that Europeans consider Sachertorte, pommes frites and football to be uniquely theirs in origin. Less pride of origin is assigned to the multiple basing point system introduced on the occasion (and because) of the creation (in 1952) of a common market for coal and steel and made mandatory (sic) in Article 60 of the European Coal and Steel Community.

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  • Louis Phlips, 1993. "Basing Point Pricing, Competition and Market Integration," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Hiroshi Ohta & Jacques-François Thisse (ed.), Does Economic Space Matter?, chapter 15, pages 303-315, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22906-2_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22906-2_16
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