A country's unilateral incentive to use strategic trade policies typically conflicts with multilateral interests regarding such intervention. The author demonstrates that domestic and world interests can coincide if intervention is used to deter exit from a distressed domestic industry. In...

Building upon [Greaney, T.M., 2005. Measuring network effects on trade: are Japanese affiliates distinctive? Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 19, 194-214], this research provides improved estimates of the impact of network effects on trade conducted by foreign affiliates...

This paper examines network effects on trade by comparing the trade patterns of foreign affiliates in the United States with the trade patterns of U.S.-owned firms. The evidence strongly supports the following hypotheses: 1) foreign affiliates behave differently from U.S. firms in their trade...

The paper presents three different viewpoints on the effects of US-Japan bilateral trade agreements and finds some evidence to support each one using trade data from 1980-1995. For most of the 25 industry-agreement cases, the data do not support a conclusion of significant positive impacts of...