Export Activity and Strategic Trade Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introductory Overview

      • Horst Kräger, Klaus F. Zimmermann

      Pages 3-6

3. Issues in Strategic Trade Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Recent Developments in Strategic Trade Policy and Empirical Evidence

      • Anette Gehrig, Klaus F. Zimmermann

      Pages 9-28

   3. Constrained Optimal Trade Policy for Imperfectly Competitive Industries

      • Mike Gasiorek, Alasdair Smith, Anthony J. Venables

      Pages 29-56

4. Determinants of Trade Flows

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Trade Balances and Exchange Rates: Are They Co-integrated?

      • Horst Kräger

      Pages 59-77

   3. Plant Size, Scale Economies and International Trade

      • Joachim Schwalbach

      Pages 79-104

   4. Determinants of Export Activity in Italian Manufacturing Industries: Results from Panel Data

      • Klaus F. Zimmermann, Lorenzo Pupillo

      Pages 105-119

5. Imperfect Markets, Innovations and Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. International Trade in a Neoclassical Model of Innovative Activity with Monopolistic Competition

      • Klaus F. Zimmermann

      Pages 123-150

   3. Relative Export Prices and Firm Size in Imperfect Markets

      • Lorenzo Pupillo, Klaus F. Zimmermann

      Pages 151-165

   4. The Learning Curve and Export Price Some Evidence on Japanese Manufacturing

      • Hideki Yamawaki

      Pages 167-185

6. Back Matter

   Pages 186-187

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New theories of international trade suggest that pro- tectionism can make sense. This finding depends on the in- troduction of market power and increasing returns to scale into the international trade theory. The enormous political implications of this hypothesis have started a large interest in applied or empirical investigations of this issue. However, econometric work in international trade is comparatively scarce, especially if it comes to testing with individual data. Therefore, this volume is considered to be a contribution to fill that gap. The volume consists of three parts: First, issues in strategic trade are discussed by means of a survey on recent contributions of the literatureand by a simulation excercise on optimal trade policy for imperfectly competitive industries. Second, a part investigating the determinants of trade flows studies the interrelationships between trade balances and exchange rates, plant size and international trade, and the revelance offirm size and market concentration for the degree of export market integration using business survey firm data. Third, there are studies on imperfect markets, innovations and learning which demonstrate the importanceof imperfect competition for international economics. All contributions provide empirical evidence for the revelance of the newly developed trade theories and demonstrate useful quantitative techniques for their investigation.

• International Economics
• econometrics
• economics
• exchange rates
• innovation
• integration
• international trade
• trade policy
• trade theory

• Institut für Aufbaustudien Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim 1, Germany

  Horst Kräger

• SELAPO, Universität München, München 22, Germany

  Klaus F. Zimmermann

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