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1 online resource (ix, 379 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
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Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
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| Note |
Papers from a conference held by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 13-14, 1987. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Robert E. Baldwin -- Empirics of taxes on differentiated products : the case of tariffs in the U.S. automobile industry / James Levinsohn -- Industrial policy and international competition in wide-bodied jet aircraft / Richard Baldwin and Paul Krugman -- Strategic models, market structure, and state trading : an application to agriculture / Marie Thursby -- Imperfect competition, scale economies, and trade policy in developing countries / Dani Rodrik -- Measures of openness / Edward E. Leamer -- The effects of protection on domestic output / Robert E. Baldwin and Richard K. Green -- Trade restraints, intermediate goods, and world market conditions / Val Eugene Lambson -- U.S. and Swedish direct investment and exports / Magnus Blomström, Robert E. Lipsey, and Ksenia Kulchycky -- United States-Japan economic relations / Rachel McCulloch -- The political economy of protectionism : tariffs and retaliation in the timber industry / Joseph P. Kalt. |
| Summary |
Interest in U.S. trade policy has been stimulated in recent years by the massive American trade deficit, by the belief that intervention by foreign governments in international markets has given other countries a competitive edge over the United States, and by concern about the increase in protectionism among industrial countries. In turn, major analytical developments in international economics have revolutionized trade theory, broadening its scope both by introducing in a more formal manner such concepts as imperfect competition, increasing returns, product differentiation, and learning effe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Commercial policy -- Congresses.
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Commercial policy. |
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Commercial policy -- Econometric models -- Congresses.
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Commercial policy -- Econometric models. |
| Indexed Term |
United States Foreign trade Policies of government |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Baldwin, Robert E.
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National Bureau of Economic Research.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Trade policy issues and empirical analysis. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1988 (DLC) 88010346 |
| ISBN |
0226036510 (electronic book) |
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9780226036519 (electronic book) |
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9780226036076 |
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9780226036519 |
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0226036073 |
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