Reference : Consumption home bias and ethnocentrism: an international duopoly
E-prints/Working papers : First made available on ORBilu
Business & economic sciences : Microeconomics
Migration and Inclusive Societies
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/40362
Consumption home bias and ethnocentrism: an international duopoly
English
Zanaj, Skerdilajda[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) >]
2019
Yes
[en] home bias, relative preferences, vertically differentiated model
[en] We define a model with two countries and two vertically differentiated goods, a high and a low-quality variant, and heterogenous consumers with respect to their willingness to pay for quality. Consumers in one country are ethnocentric in consumption. They thrive additional satisfaction when consuming a domestic good rather than a foreign one since only the former can satisfy their sense of place. We investigate the role of trade costs and ethnocentric attitude in shaping the equilibrium configuration of the international duopoly.