Import Competition and Response

420 pages
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© 1982
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
I. Adjustment Processes and Policies: Theoretical Issues
2. Import Competition and Macroeconomic Adjustment under Wage-Prices Rigidity
Michael Bruno
Comment: J. Peter Neary
3. Intersectoral Capital Mobility, Wage Stickiness, and the Case for Adjustment Assistance
J. Peter Neary
Comment: Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez
Comment: Avinash Dixit
4. Government Policy and the Adjustment Process
Michael Mussa
Comment: Alasdair Smith
5. Protection, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and Income Distribution
Peter A. Diamond
Comment: John S. Chipman
II. Responses to Import Competition: Lobbying Et Al.
6. Shifting Competitive Advantage, Protectionist Demands, and Policy Response
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Appendix. Product Creation and Trade Patterns: A Theoretical Note on the "Biological" Model of Trade in Similar Products
Robert C. Feenstra
7. Trade in Differentiated Products and the Political Economy of Trade Liberalization
Paul Krugman
Comment: Kelvin Lancaster
Comment: Michael Mussa
Comment: John S. Chipman
8. Endogenous Tariffs, the Political Economy of Trade Restrictions, and Welfare
Ronald Findlay and Stanislaw Wellisz
Comment: Richard A. Brecher
Comment: Leslie Young
9. Tariff Seeking and the Efficient Tariff
Robert C. Feenstra and Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Comment: Robert E. Baldwin
10. The Political Economy of Protectionism
Robert E. Baldwin
Comment: Stephen P. Magee
Comment: Stanislaw Wellisz
III. Adjustment Processes, Assistance Policies, and Political Response: Some Empirical Realities
11. Adjustment in Process: A Lancashire Town
Ronald P. Dore
Comment: J. David Richardson
12. Trade Adjustment Assistance under the United States Trade Act of 1974: An Analytical Examination and Worker Survey
J. David Richardson
Comment: C. Michael Aho
Comment: Martin Wolf
13. European Community Protection against Manufactured Imports from Developing Countries: A Case Study in the Political Economy of Protection
Eric Verreydt and Jean Waelbroeck
Comment: William R. Cline
Comment: Gene M. Grossman
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
1. Introduction
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
I. Adjustment Processes and Policies: Theoretical Issues
2. Import Competition and Macroeconomic Adjustment under Wage-Prices Rigidity
Michael Bruno
Comment: J. Peter Neary
3. Intersectoral Capital Mobility, Wage Stickiness, and the Case for Adjustment Assistance
J. Peter Neary
Comment: Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez
Comment: Avinash Dixit
4. Government Policy and the Adjustment Process
Michael Mussa
Comment: Alasdair Smith
5. Protection, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and Income Distribution
Peter A. Diamond
Comment: John S. Chipman
II. Responses to Import Competition: Lobbying Et Al.
6. Shifting Competitive Advantage, Protectionist Demands, and Policy Response
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Appendix. Product Creation and Trade Patterns: A Theoretical Note on the "Biological" Model of Trade in Similar Products
Robert C. Feenstra
7. Trade in Differentiated Products and the Political Economy of Trade Liberalization
Paul Krugman
Comment: Kelvin Lancaster
Comment: Michael Mussa
Comment: John S. Chipman
8. Endogenous Tariffs, the Political Economy of Trade Restrictions, and Welfare
Ronald Findlay and Stanislaw Wellisz
Comment: Richard A. Brecher
Comment: Leslie Young
9. Tariff Seeking and the Efficient Tariff
Robert C. Feenstra and Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Comment: Robert E. Baldwin
10. The Political Economy of Protectionism
Robert E. Baldwin
Comment: Stephen P. Magee
Comment: Stanislaw Wellisz
III. Adjustment Processes, Assistance Policies, and Political Response: Some Empirical Realities
11. Adjustment in Process: A Lancashire Town
Ronald P. Dore
Comment: J. David Richardson
12. Trade Adjustment Assistance under the United States Trade Act of 1974: An Analytical Examination and Worker Survey
J. David Richardson
Comment: C. Michael Aho
Comment: Martin Wolf
13. European Community Protection against Manufactured Imports from Developing Countries: A Case Study in the Political Economy of Protection
Eric Verreydt and Jean Waelbroeck
Comment: William R. Cline
Comment: Gene M. Grossman
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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