Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the concept of strategic trade policy. The
analysis of strategic trade policy is part of a broader research agenda that has been very …

This paper examines strategic trade policy under asymmetric information with publicly
observable contracts. We analyse both the cases of unilateral and bilateral intervention. We …

We argue that the rise of antidumping protection and the proliferation of voluntary export
restraints (VERs) are fundamentally interrelated. We show that both can be explained by a …

Oligopoly means competition among the few, and the study of markets with a relatively small
number of large firms is an important branch of industrial organisation and microeconomics …

This paper investigates the equivalence of optimal import tariffs and quotas in a Cournot
duopoly model when firms have more information about demand than the domestic …

In this paper we explore the design of optimal incentive‐compatible anti‐dumping (AD)
measures. When the weight given to the domestic firm's profit in the government's objective …

We examine the incentives for a government to levy an optimal tariff on a foreign monopolist
with unknown costs. With complete information, the home government uses a discriminatory …

In an environment in which home firm costs are private information, home firm output can
signal these costs to a foreign competitor and a home policymaker. High‐cost home firms …

In this paper, a domestic and a foreign firm compete as Cournot duopolists in the domestic
market. The foreign firm has incomplete information about the costs of the domestic firm, but …

In the framework of international Cournot oligopoly, we analyze welfare-enhancing policies
when policymakers have only limited information on demand and cost structures. We show …