Infrastructure provision and international market share rivalry |
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Authors: | Klaus Conrad Helmut Seitz |
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Institution: | University of Mannheim, Seminargebaeude A5, 68131 Mannheim, Germany |
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Abstract: | The paper examines a model of strategic infrastructure investment. Two oligopolistic firms compete on home and foreign product markets for market shares. The national governments support the firms in the market rivalry by providing cost reducing public infrastructure services that are financed out of taxing an input used in the production process. It is shown, that infrastructure policy can be used as an instrument for strategic trade policy. However, governments are facing the problem of balancing the burden of taxation and the benefits of infrastructures. The theoretical model also raises some critical issues with respect to the policy relevance of recent empirical infrastructure research. |
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Keywords: | Strategic infrastructure Competition Strategic trade policy |
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