Does the Home Market Effect Arise in a Three-Country Model?

It is uncertain whether the fundamental “home market effect” (HME) generalizes from a two-country model to a more realistic setting with multiple countries. We present a three-country version of the seminal model by Krugman (1980) and analyse under which circumstances the HME is present once third country effects are taken into account. We show that both expenditure shifts and exogenous enlargements among foreign countries can rule out the HME.

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Year of publication:	2005-05-09
Authors:	Südekum, Jens
Institutions:	Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the Economy (CeGE), Georg-August-Universität
Subject:	New trade theory \| home market effect \| hub effect

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	cege – Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 42 2 pages long
Classification:	F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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