Studies in International Economics and Institutions
I. Introduction.- Introductory Overview.- II. Issues in Strategic Trade Policy.- Recent Developments in Strategic Trade Policy and Empirical Evidence.- Constrained Optimal Trade Policy for Imperfectly Competitive Industries.- III. Determinants of Trade Flows.- Trade Balances and Exchange Rates: Are They Co-integrated?.- Plant Size, Scale Economies, and International Trade.- Determinants of Export Activity in Italian Manufacturing Industries: Results from Panel Data.- IV. Imperfect Markets, Innovations and Learning.- International Trade in a Neoclassical Model of Innovative Activity with Monopolistic Competition.- Relative Export Prices and Firm Size in Imperfect Markets.- The Learning Curve and Export Price: Some Evidence on Japanese Manufacturing.- List of Contributors.
Second, apart investigating the determinants of trade flows studiesthe interrelationships between trade balances and exchangerates, plant size and international trade, and the revelanceoffirm size and market concentration for the degree ofexport market integration using business survey firm data.