Sunk costs of market segmentation imply that the option to segment markets is more valuable the greater the variability of purchasing power between markets. One result is that a monetary union may lead to market integration when a fixed exchange rate did not.
Extensions examine hysterisis, transport costs and general equilibrium modeling.
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