Publications [#378411] of Felix Tintelnot

Journal Articles

1. Coşar, AK; Grieco, PLE; Tintelnot, F, Borders, geography, and oligopoly: Evidence from the wind turbine industry, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 97 no. 3 (July, 2015), pp. 623-637 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/17)

   Abstract:
   Using a microlevel data set of wind turbine installations in Denmark and Germany, we estimate a structural oligopoly model with cross-border trade and heterogeneous firms. Our approach separately identifies border-related from distance-related variable costs and bounds the fixed cost of exporting for each firm. In the data, firms' market shares drop precipitously at the border. We find that 40% to 50% of the gap can be attributed to national border costs. Counterfactual analysis indicates that eliminating national border frictions would increase total welfare in the wind turbine industry by 4% in Denmark and 6% in Germany.