ndustrial policy has returned to the centre of economic governance, particularly in the high-tech sectors where positive network externalities in demand make market dominance self-reinforcing. This paper studies the welfare effects of an industrial policy targeting a sector with network...

Use of trade data can enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of strategic trade control efforts. By understanding national and global trade in strategic commodities, officials can better focus their trade control efforts, select companies for outreach and audit, target transactions for...

"This volume is a collection of Jota Ishikawa's past and recent research on strategic trade policy. Chapters one and two are concerned with technical matters when studying strategic trade policy rather than the analysis of strategic trade policy itself. The chapters particularly introduce an...

In a three-country model in which export countries adopt environmental policies, this note analyses how abatement ("green") subsidy can become a potential strategic trade policy tool. When governments set the optimal policy tool considering their local environmental damages, a rich set of...

We introduce demand uncertainty into the context of strategic trade policy in an export rivalry market model, and we examine endogenous timing in the framework of Cournot-Stackelberg duopoly when firms decide in the first stage whether to set output level before or after resolution of...

We explore the possibility of achieving a cooperative outcome when exporting countries act non-cooperatively in a strategic environmental policy model where emission permit markets are linked. We endogenize the participation decision into a specific distribution scheme of the permit revenue...

This paper examines social welfare effects of antitrust regulation in the presence of strategic trade policy within a reciprocal market model. Using a simple two-country trade model, we show that the enforcement of antitrust policy in the domestic market unambiguously improves the domestic...

We study international trade and macroeconomic dynamics triggered by the imposition of sanctions. We begin with a tractable two-country model where Home and Foreign countries have comparative advantages in production of differentiated consumption goods and a commodity (e.g., gas), respectively....

We explore the possibility of achieving a cooperative outcome when governments act non-cooperatively in a strategic environmental policy model where emission permit markets are linked. We introduce a specific distribution scheme of the permit revenues between the exporting countries so as to...

In May, 1981, a voluntary export restraint (VER) was placed on exports of automobiles from Japan to the United States. As trade policies go, this one was important. At about the same time, though to much less fanfare, international trade theorists were obtaining (then) startling results from...

This paper reviews empirical methods used to estimate the impact of trade policies under imperfect competition. We decompose the welfare effects of trade policy into four possible channels: (i) a deadweight loss from distorting consumption and production decisions; (ii) a possible gain from...