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Strategic trade and industrial policy towards dynamic oligopolies

Abstract:

We characterise optimal trade and industrial policy in dynamic oligopolistic markets. If governments can commit to future policies, optimal first-period intervention should diverge from the profit-shifting benchmark to an extent which exactly offsets the strategic behaviour implied by Fudenberg and Tirole's ‘animal spirits’ taxonomy of business strategies. Without government commitment, there is an additional basis for intervention, whose sign depends on the strategic substitutability between...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1111/1468-0297.00534

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Research group:
Industrial Economics
Oxford college:
Merton College
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Institution:
University College Dublin
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Publisher:
Blackwell Publishing Publisher's website
Journal:
Economic Journal Journal website
Volume:
110
Issue:
463
Pages:
484-508
Publication date:
2000-04-01
DOI:
EISSN:
1468-0297
ISSN:
0013-0133
Language:
English
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ora:2133
Deposit date:
2008-06-27

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