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Strategic trade, competitive industries and agricultural trade disputes

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2000

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Targeted strategic trade policy with domestic cost heterogeneity

Leahy, Dermot (contributor); Montagna, Catia (contributor) - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001609001

Strategic trade, competitive industries and agricultural trade disputes

Bagwell, Kyle (contributor); Staiger, Robert W. (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001661502

Cost Effectiveness of R&D and Strategic Trade Policy

Kujal, Praveen; Ruiz Pérez, Juan Manuel - 2007

This paper analyzes the incentives for governments to impose export subsidies when firms invest in a cost saving technology before market competition. Governments first impose an export subsidy or a tax. After observing export policy, firms invest in cost reducing R&D and subsequently compete in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053056

Should Governments Help Winners or Losers?

Garcia Pires, Armando José - 2010

One central result in the strategic trade literature is that governments should not support domestic ”losers” but domestic ”winners”. We show that when first-mover advantages are taken into account, the reverse holds, governments have stronger incentives to support domestic ”losers”...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198135

Can Developing Countries Benefit from Strategic Export Promotion?

Yin, Xiangkang; Yin, Xiangshuo - 2001

Casual observation shows that many developing countries adopt certain strategic trade measures such as export subsidies and domestic currency devaluation to promote their exports. This paper analyzes two effects of these measures, the externality associated with the import of capital goods and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142594

Export Subsidies and International Market Share Rivalry

Brander, James A.; Spencer, Barbara J. - 2021

Countries often perceive themselves as being in competition with each other for profitable international markets. In such a world export subsidies can appear as attractive policy tools, from a national point of view, because they improve the relative position of a domestic firm in noncooperative...

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Free Trade vs. Strategic Trade : A Peek into Pandora'S Box

Grossman, Gene M.; Maggi, Giovanni - 2021

We investigate whether a welfare-maximizing government ought to pursue a program of" strategic trade intervention or instead commit itself to free trade when domestic firms will have an opportunity to manipulate the government's choice of the level of" intervention. Domestic firms may overinvest...

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Rent-Shifting Export Subsidies with an Imported Intermediate Product

Ishikawa, Jota; Spencer, Barbara J. - 2021

This paper argues that export subsidies aimed at shifting rents from foreign to domestic producers of a final good may also serve to shift rents to foreign firms supplying an intermediate good, weakening the incentive for the subsidy. By contrast, assuming Cournot competition for both the final...

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Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these … predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the … theory is augmented to allow for politically-motivated governments, so that the sign of export policy may be converted from …

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