Competition policy plays an increasing role worldwide, both at the national and international level. The number of countries with competition laws has increased to about seventy as of 1999, against less than thirty only three decades earlier. One of the many reasons that lie behind this renewed...

This paper examines 1) oligolopoly and strategic trade policy 2) industrial policy 3) Japanese industrial policy: what difference did it make.

In this paper, we simulate the impact of removing all tariffs on imports under both competitive and Cournot oligopoly market structures with and without barriers to entry and exit.

This paper presents a new method that estimates the relative seller-concentration of an industry over both domestic and foreign sellers in 14 OECD countries, on the basis of a joint Structure-Performance and Brander-Krugman type model. Results suggest that overall seller-concentration is...

This paper constitutes the first research that examines the historical origin of the debate about "U.S. competitiveness". It takes a special interest in a "myth" widely spread that concern over "U.S. competitiveness" arose between the beginning of the late 1970s and 1986. In fact, these...

The study explores important trends in consumption patterns in European Union(EU) markets and assesses the degree to which these patterns offer opportunities for African exporters.

Recent theoretical and empirical literature on international trade has renewed our understanding of specialisation and competition, especially between developed and emerging economies. Specialisation operates at the level of varieties instead of product or sector-level. Furthermore, competition...

The purpose of this paperis to analyse the formation of trade blocs and what leads to their expansion.

why do governments seek restrictions on the use of export subsidies through reciprocal trade agreements such as GATT? With existing arguments, it is possible to understand GATT's restrictions on export subsidies as representing an inefficient victory of the interests of exporting governments...