Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65800 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2011/26
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
This paper analyses how product differentiation affects the volume of trade under duopoly using Shubik-Levitan demand functions rather than the Bowley demand functions used by Bernhofen (2001). The Shubik-Levitan demand functions have the advantage that an increase in product differentiation does not increase the size of the market as happens with the Bowley demand functions. It is shown that the volume of trade in terms of quantities is decreasing in the degree of product differentiation when the trade cost is relatively low, but increasing in the degree of product differentiation when the trade cost is relatively high.
Subjects: 
Product Differentiation
Cournot Oligopoly
Bertrand Oligopoly
JEL: 
F12
F13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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