TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bagwell,Kyle
AU  - Staiger,Robert W.
TI  - Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7822
PY  - 2000
Y2  - August 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7822
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7822.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Kyle Bagwell
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Landau Economics Building
579 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6072
Tel: (650) 723-3251
E-Mail: kbagwell@stanford.edu

Robert W. Staiger
Department of Economics
The University of Wisconsin
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI  53705
Tel: 608/262-2265
Fax: 608/263-3876
E-Mail: rstaiger@wisc.edu
AB  - The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets.  Indeed, these predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the theory is augmented to allow for politically-motivated governments, so that the sign of export policy may be converted from tax to subsidy.  This suggest that the ongoing agricultural trade disputes may be best interpreted from the perspective of strategic-trade theory.  In fact, these disputes may offer the most important example yet of strategic-trade theory.
ER  -