Financial crisis, "New" industrial policy, and the bite of multilateral trade rules

Asian Economic Policy Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-244

  Aggarwal, Vinod K ^a   Evenett, Simon J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Financial crisis; Industrial policy; Protectionism; Trade rules; World Trade Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649559847     PISSN: 18328105     EISSN: 17483131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-3131.2010.01166.x     Document Type: Article

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