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Strategic Trade and International Competition Policy

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Industrial Policies After 2000

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Tensions beween industrial and competition policy are frequent.1 The semiconductor trade agreement between the United States and Japan—which required Japanese firms to collude in order to reduce their exports to the United States—was in conflict with antitrust policy, as were the various arrangements within the European coal and steel industry especially during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Markl, R., Meissner, W. (2000). Strategic Trade and International Competition Policy. In: Elsner, W., Groenewegen, J. (eds) Industrial Policies After 2000. Recent Economic Thought, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3996-0_7

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