Dimensions of Trade Policy

Dimensions of Trade Policy collects the author's significant works on international trade policy over almost 30 years of publishing. The articles cover an eclectic range of topics but are grouped into three main areas of concentration — local content protection, the economics of preferential trading areas and the relationship between trade and competition policies — and the book also includes some sui generis topics, such as "fair trade" and "buy local" schemes. An introduction ties the chapters together and indicates their relevance to contemporary matters in trade policy.

Contents:

• Content Protection:

  • The Effects of a Content Requirement on a Foreign Duopsonist
  • Content Protection with Foreign Capital
  • Commercial Broadcasting and Local Content: Cultural Quotas, Advertising and Public Stations
  • Faddists, Enthusiasts and Canadian Divas: Broadcasting Quotas and the Supply Response

• Preferential Trading Agreements:

  • Endogenous Protection and Trade Diversion
  • Why a Free Trade Area? The Tariff also Rises
  • Customs Unions and Domestic Taxes
  • Tariff Revenue Competition in a Free Trade Area
  • On the Interpretation of the Kemp/Wan Theorem
  • Fortress Europe: Jericho or Château d'If?

• Trade and Competition Policy:

  • Trade and Competition Policies: Concordia Discors?
  • Trade Policy and Access to Retail Distribution
  • Private and Public Incentives for Mergers in the Face of Foreign Entry

• Parallel Imports:

  • An Elementary Proposition Concerning Parallel Imports
  • Trade Policy and Parallel Imports

• Miscellaneous:

  • Quality and Congestion in Environmental Goods
  • Fair Trade
  • Buy Local? Governmental Incentives to "Inform" Consumers

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in international economics.
Key Features:

• It addresses matters of contemporary policy significance such as preferential trading areas and the relationships between trade and competition policies
• Covers an eclectic range of topics in international trade policy