This paper extends the partial (PE) and general equilibrium (GE) analyses of Nash and stackelberg optimum export taxes to multicountry framework, using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the global cocoa market.

Using a model of imperfect compitition and allowing for imperfect substitutability between domestically produced and imported machinery, we analyze the relationship between machinery investment and export competitiveness.

This paper argues that previous empirical work on the explanation for Hong Kong's export Growth, by focusing on the values of the estimated price and income elasticities, has failed to provide a full account. It is necessarily also to look at changes in the explanatory variables in the model,...