Software Provision and the Impact of Market Integration: A Note

Iwasa, Kazumichi and Kikuchi, Toru (2008): Software Provision and the Impact of Market Integration: A Note.

Abstract

Both deeper market integration and advances in digital technology have driven particularly large decreases in the costs of inter-market software provision. In this note, we first explain the mechanism of how trade costs in uence the software provision decision of software firms. Then, we investigated the transformation of production/trade patterns given gradually decreasing trade costs for software products.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; Fragmentation

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