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International Trade Aspects of Competition Policy
Nagaoka, Sadao - 1998
Recently competition policy has become an important trade policy issue, since many policy makers now see competition policy as an important instrument to secure market access' to foreign markets. This paper analyzes this issue both from a theoretical point of view and from the review of the...
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Market Access and International Competition : A Simulation Study of 16K Random Access Memories
Baldwin, Richard E. - 1986
ask the following question: how much did the apparent closure of the Japanese market to imports affect Japan's export … otherwise have been uncompetitive both at home and abroad. We find, however, that Japan's home market protection nonetheless … produced more costs than benefits for Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477136
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2010
differential effects on the performance of the IT industries in the United States and Japan. Using a broad unbalanced panel of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462494
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala - 1996
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473162
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994
Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
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Benevolent Colluders? The Effects of Antitrust Action on College Financial Aid and Tuition
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2000
The Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation of private colleges for price-fixing caused the Overlap' group of colleges to discontinue their meetings. DOJ alleged that the meetings enabled the colleges to collude on higher tuition and increase their tuition revenue. The colleges claimed...
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A Dynamic Analysis of the Market for Wide-Bodied Commercial Aircraft
Benkard, C. Lanier - 2000
This paper develops a multi-agent dynamic model of the commercial aircraft industry and then uses that model to analyze industry pricing, industry performance, and optimal industry policy. In the model, firms are differentiated in their products and cost structure, and entry, exit, prices, and...
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The Competition Between Competition Rules
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...
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Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin - 1999
In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a brief review of antitrust legislation. We then discuss whether and how health care is different from other industries in ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471682
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Collusion, Mergers, and Related Antitrust Issues
Asker, John; Nocke, Volker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This survey examines recent developments in economic research relating to antitrust, paying specific attention to research in the areas of collusion and merger enforcement. Research relating to both collusion and mergers has made significant advances in the last twenty years. With respect to...
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