Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2000-07-31
Number: 00-059/2
Author-Name: Joseph Francois
Author-Email: francois@few.eur.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam, and CEPR
Author-Name: Ian Wooton
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Glasgow, and CEPR
Title: Market Structure, Trade Liberalization and the GATS
Abstract: In this paper we examine the interaction between the different modesof market access commitments inservices (cross-border and establishment) market structure, andregulation.  In this context, we focus on theimpact of improved domestic market access for a foreign serviceprovider on a domestic service market.  Wework with a model where the domestic industry is assumed to beimperfectly competitive and, as a result ofdomestic regulation, able to act as a cartel.  We also examine theincentives for the domestic firms toaccommodate the entry of the foreign firm by inviting it to join thecartel.
Classification-JEL: F12; F13; F23
Keywords: services trade; trade liberalization; market access; imperfect competition
File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/00059.pdf
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