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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823752203321

Titolo

Trade policies for international competitiveness / / edited by Robert C. Feenstra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1989

ISBN

1-281-43086-2

9786611430863

0-226-23950-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 pages)

Collana

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)

Altri autori (Persone)

FeenstraRobert C

Disciplina

382/.3/0973

Soggetti

Foreign trade promotion - United States

Investments, American

Competition, International

United States Commercial policy Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Savings Promotion, Investment Promotion, and International Competitiveness -- 2 The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States , 1979- 85 -- 3 Can Interindustry Wage Differentials Justify Strategic Trade Policy? -- 4 Dynamic Duopoly with Output Adjustment Costs in International Markets: Taking the Conjecture out of Conjectural Variations -- 5 Differentiated Products, Economies of Scale, and Access to the Japanese Market -- 6 Export Prices and Exchange Rates: An Industry Approach -- 7 U. S . -Canada Bilateral Tariff Elimination: The Role of Product Differentiation and Market Structure -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Once unquestionably the world's leading economic and industrial power, the United States now views with growing dismay the impressive industrial efficiency, vigorous work ethics, and large American holdings of various other nations. Is the United States truly lagging in its ability to compete effectively in world markets? Concern over this question has been voiced in both the business and government sectors, as well



as by academic economists. A recent conference, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, explored the effects of trade policies on a nation's ability to compete in international markets. In Trade Policies for International Competitiveness, Robert C. Feenstra collects seven papers from the conference, each accompanied by discussants' comments, and adds a helpful introduction. Some of the issues considered by contributors are effects of macroeconomic and strategic foreign policies on competitiveness; the recent influx of foreign direct investment in the United States, primarily from Japan; the extent to which Japanese trade patterns are a reflection of underlying factor and endowments rather than trade barriers; and the market structure of Canadian industries, including applications for ongoing U.S.-Canadian free trade negotiations. Topical and provocative, these papers will be of value to economists, policymakers, and those in the business world.