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| Difei Geng and Kamal Saggi |
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| ''International effects of national regulations: external reference pricing and price controls'' |
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| Under external reference pricing (ERP) the price that a government permits a firm to charge in its market depends upon the firm's prices in other countries. In a two-country (home and foreign) model where demand is asymmetric across countries, we show that home's unilaterally optimal ERP policy permits the home firm to engage in a threshold level of international price discrimination above which it is (just) willing to export. If the firm faces a price control abroad or bargains over price with the foreign government, an ERP policy can even yield higher home welfare than a direct price control. |
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| Keywords: External reference pricing policies, price controls, patented products, welfare. |
JEL: F1 - Trade: General
D4 - Market Structure and Pricing: General |
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| Manuscript Received : Aug 15 2017 | | Manuscript Accepted : Aug 16 2017 |
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