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CEP discussion paper
Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms

We provide a general characterization of which firms will select alternative ways of serving a market. If and only if firms' maximum profits are supermodular in production and marketaccess costs, more efficient firms wil...Read more...

Monika Mrazova and J. Peter Neary

31 October 2012

CEP discussion paper
R&D in Developing Countries: What Should Governments Do?

I consider the implications of recent research for R&D policy in developing countries. Typical new growth models, which assume free entry and no strategic behaviour by R&D producers, are less appropriate for policy guida...Read more...

J. Peter Neary

July 2000

CEP discussion paper
The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy

This paper develops and characterises an index of trade policy restrictiveness defined as the uniform tariff equivalent which maintains the same volume of trade as a given set of tariffs, quotas, and domestic taxes and s...Read more...

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

November 1998

CEP discussion paper
Strategic Trade and Industrial PolicyTowards Dynamic Oligopolies

In this paper characterise optimal trade and industrial policy in dynamic oligopolistic markets. If governments can commit to future policies, optimal first-period intervention should diverge from the profit-shifting ben...Read more...

D Leahy and J. Peter Neary

November 1998

CEP discussion paper
Beat 'Em or Join 'Em: Export Subsidies versus International Research Joint Ventures in Oligopolistic Markets

This paper compares adversarial with cooperative industrial and trade policies in a dynamic oligopoly game in which a home and foreign firm compete in R&D and output and, because of spillovers, each firm benefits from th...Read more...

J. Peter Neary and P O'Sullivan

November 1998

CEP discussion paper
Pitfalls in the Theory of International Trade Policy: Concertina Reforms of Tariffs and Subsidies to High Technology Industries

This paper explores the links between international trade theory and the practice of trade and industrial policy in open economies, with special attention to three areas where theoretical lessons have been misunderstood ...Read more...

J. Peter Neary

May 1997

CEP discussion paper
R&D Spillovers and the Case for Industrial Policy in an Open Economy

In this paper we consider the case for subsidies towards firms which generate R&D spillovers in open economies. We show that many expected results are overturned in the presence of strategic behaviour by firms. Local R&D...Read more...

D Leahy and J. Peter Neary

April 1997

CEP discussion paper
True Multilateral Indexes for International Comparisons of Purchasing Power and Real Income

I consider the problem of choosing index numbers of purchasing power and real income for international comparisons. I show that the desirable properties of methods based on the Fisher 'Ideal' index do not extend to multi...Read more...

J. Peter Neary

February 1997

CEP discussion paper
Public Policy Towards R&D in Oligopolistic Industries

This paper examines the free-market and socially optimal outcomes in a dynamic oligopoly model with R&D spillovers. First-best optimal subsidies to R&D are higher when firms play strategically against each other but lowe...Read more...

D Leahy and J. Peter Neary

November 1995

CEP discussion paper
Learning by Doing

This paper examines the implications for strategic trade policy of different assumptions about precommitment. In a dynamic oligopoly game with learning by doing, the optimal first-period subsidy is lower if firms cannot ...Read more...

D Leahy and J. Peter Neary

August 1995

CEP discussion paper
Factor Mobility and International Trade

This paper develops a two-country model of trade and factor mobility, in which capital is sector-specific but international mobile. The model avoids the indeterminacy and propensity to specialise of Heckscher-Ohlin model...Read more...

J. Peter Neary

July 1995

CEP discussion paper
External Shocks

This paper examines the responsiveness of real income and the balance of payments to external shocks in a small open economy. It is shown that tariff restrictions and wage rigidities tend to increase responsiveness and q...Read more...

J. Peter Neary

January 1994

CEP discussion paper
Measuring the Restrictiveness of Trade Policy

Alternative methods of measuring the restrictiveness of trade policy are reviewed. A new measure is proposed and it is shown to be theoretically superior to other measures and to be easily implementable in practice. Meas...Read more...

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

January 1994

CEP discussion paper
Domestic Distortions and International Trade

In this paper, we investigate techniques for measuring the trade policy equivalent of domestic distortions, using a distance function approach. Our measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, is shown to equal the uniform ...Read more...

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

November 1993

CEP discussion paper
A New Approach to Evaluating Trade Policy

This paper introduces a new measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, which measures the restrictiveness of a system of trade protection. The index is a general equilibrium application of the distance function and answer...Read more...

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

October 1993