ILO pub-wep pub. WEP conference paper on the role of developing countries exports on Germany, Federal Republic manufacturing industry, with particular reference to employment and to industrial policy adjustments to changing trade relations - discusses state intervention (ie. Subsidys,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on computer aided manufacturing, management information systems and specific industry restructuring in Belgium - based on case studies of the introduction of information technology and microelectronics innovations in the iron and steel industry and the textile...

ILO pub-wep pub. WEP conference paper on the role of developing countries exports on Germany, Federal Republic manufacturing industry, with particular reference to employment and to industrial policy adjustments to changing trade relations - discusses state intervention (ie. Subsidys,...

This paper examines the optimality of export subsidies in oligopolistic markets, when home and foreign fires have different costs and there is an opportunity cost to public funds. Subsidies are found to be optimal only for surprisingly lou values of the shadow price of government funds and, if...

In this paper I develop a model of international duopoly, where firms invest in product differentiation. I show that firms have an incentive to free-ride on the investment of their rival, due to an externality generated by product differentiation. A further effect of product differentiation is...