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