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International Trade Aspects of Competition Policy
Nagaoka, Sadao - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228236
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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 - 2014
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/10013069641
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Market Access and International Competition : a Simulation Study of 16k Random Access Memories
Baldwin, Richard E.; Krugman, Paul R. - 2021
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/10013232915
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the Us-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala; Morgan, John - 2022
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...
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310555
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Bailouts and the Preservation of Competition
Roberts, James W. - 2011
Governments rescue private companies partly to prevent other firms from gaining excessive market power. However, if failing firms exit, new entry may limit remaining firms' market power if there are potential entrants who can be as effective competitors as the firms leaving the market. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131956
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The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses
Evans, David S. - 2013
This Chapter provides a survey of the economics literature on multi-sided platforms with particular focus on competition policy issues, including market definition, mergers, monopolization, and coordinated behavior. It provides a survey of the general industrial organization theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087056
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Antitrust and Regulation
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2007
Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests, but specified prices and rules of mandatory dealing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777652
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Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy : Evidence from the Assassination of President Mckinley
Baker, Richard B. - 2018
We study the importance of discretion in antitrust enforcement by analyzing the response of asset prices to the sudden accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley's term in office the largest wave of merger activity in American history occurred, and his administration did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908167
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Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do it
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2010
In this article, I explain the inadequacy of our current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of antitrust policy towards mergers. I then discuss the types of data that one must collect in order to be able to perform an analysis of the effectiveness of antitrust policy. There are two...
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