This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative.

This paper questions the presumption that transferable quota licenses are worth more and result in higher welfare. We show that the price of a transferable license will tend to be higher than of its nontransferable counterpart only if the underlying quota is quite restrictive.

We show that a market access requirement (MAR) can increase competition and reduces prices if a properly designed subsidy scheme is used to enforce the requirement. This is in contrast to most of the recent literature which has generally concluded that MARs are unambiguously anticompetitive. Our...