Learning by doing, precommitment and infant industry promotion.

We examine the implications for strategic trade policy of different assumptions about precommitment in a two-period Cournot oligopoly game with learning by doing. The inability of firms and governments to precommit to future actions encourages strategic behaviour which justifies an optimal first-per...

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Main Authors: Leahy, D, Neary, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing 1999