Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5066460 | European Economic Review | 2016 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
We explore the role of trade costs for the home bias in trade. In a series of Cournot duopoly experiments with a home and an export market, we compare output choices when firms face different levels of trade costs. We find that there is two-way trade in identical products and that firms hold the majority market share in their home market. The resulting home bias turns out to be, however, stronger than that predicted by theory, and it even occurs without trade costs. Tacit collusion contributes to the home bias observed in our experiment but does not offer a full explanation for the phenomenon.
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Authors
Catherine Roux, LuÃs Santos-Pinto, Christian Thöni,