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International R&D Rivalry and Industrial Strategy

Spencer, Barbara J. - 1983

This paper presents a theory of government intervention which provides an explanation for "industrial strategy …

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Heart of Darkness : Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box

David, Paul A. - 2000

This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. Econometric studies in this area report a plethora of sometimes confusing and frequently...

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The Role of Information in Competitive Experimentation

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2011

Technological progress is typically a result of trial-and-error research by competing firms. While some research paths lead to the innovation sought, others result in dead ends. Because firms benefit from their competitors working in the wrong direction, they do not reveal their dead-end...

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Empirical studies of strategic trade policy

Krugman, Paul R. (ed.); Smith, Alasdair (ed.) - 1994

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Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes

Bagwell, Kyle - 2000

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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Strategic Trade Policy with Endogenous Choice of Quality and Asymmetric Costs

Zhou, Dongsheng - 2000

This paper examines the strategic trade policy incentives for investment policies towards quality improvements in a vertically differentiated exporting industry. Firms first compete in qualities and then export to a third country market based on Bertrand or Cournot competition. Optimal policies...

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

Grossman, Gene M. - 1997

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 - 1996

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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Do Labor Rents Justify Strategic Trade and Industrial Policy?

Dickens, William T. - 1995

Several efficiency wage theories of wage determination have the property that identical workers are more productive in high wage industries and that the promotion of employment in high wage industries can increase GDP (and some measures of welfare). I argue that while policies to favor high wage...

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Strategic Trade Policy

Brander, James A. - 1995

This paper reviews the literature on strategic trade policy. Strategic trade policy is defined as trade policy that conditions or alters a strategic relationship between firms, implying that strategic trade policy focuses primarily on trade policy in the presence of oligopoly. The key point is...

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