Rent-shifting export subsidies with an imported intermediate product

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-232

  Ishikawa, Jota ^a   Spencer, Barbara J ^b  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Export subsidies; Strategic trade policy; Trade in intermediate goods; Vertical oligopolies; Vertically related markets

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; EXPORT; GOODS EXCHANGE; TRADE POLICY;

EID: 0032844518     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(98)00042-7     Document Type: Article

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