Regional Free Trade Areas and Strategic Trade Policies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ohkawa, Takao (Editor), Tawada, Makoto (Editor), Okamura, Makoto (Editor), Nomura, Ryoichi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 10
• Subjects: Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; Economic theory.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This book presents a theoretical investigation of the formation of regional free trade agreements (FTAs), the behavior of global enterprises, and government trade policies in various game forms including multi-stage games, repeated games, and timing games. In the last few decades, the number of FTAs...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: The Formation of Free Trade Agreements
• 1. Expansion of Free Trade Agreements, Overlapping Free Trade Agreements and Market Size
• 2. The Feasibility of Multilateral Free Trade and Mode of Competition: Stackelberg versus Cournot Competitions
• 3. Sustainability of Free Trade Agreements under a Maximum Revenue Tariff
• 4. Technology Choice, Firm Behavior, and Free Trade Agreements
• Part II: The Timing of Trade Policies
• 5. Endogenous Timing in Trade Policy under the Three-Country Model
• 6. Endogenous Timing Decision on Trade Policies between Importing and Exporting Countries with Many Firms
• Part III: The Roles of Trade Policies
• 7. Government Intervention Brings about Free-Trade Outcomes in the Long Run
• 8. Optimum Welfare and Maximum Revenue Tariff under Oligopoly: A Note
• 9. Cost Asymmetries and Import Tariff Policy in a Vertically Related Industry
• 10. Strategic Trade Policy and Food Trade
• 11. International Price Competition among Food Industries: The Role of Income, Population and Biased Consumer Preference.