Expanding the Purchase of a Foreign Intermediate Good: An Analysis of Vies and Content Protection Under Oligopoly
Expanding the Purchase of a Foreign Intermediate Good: An Analysis of Vies and Content Protection Under Oligopoly
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扩大国外中间品采购:寡头垄断下的竞争与内容保护分析
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10.1007/978-1-4615-5109-6_6
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1999
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Jota Ishikawa
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作者:
Jota Ishikawa
The nature of trade friction between the United States and Japan clearly changed in the middle of 1980's. Through that time, the friction was caused by rapid increases in Japanese exports to the United States. To ease the friction, voluntary export restraints (VERs) were often imposed. 2 Since mid 1980's, the openness of Japanese markets has been the heart of the friction. The US government has accused Japan of closed markets on the basis of her huge trade surplus, low import ratio of manufactured products and Keiretsu. To open Japanese markets, results-oriented trade policy has been gaining favor in the US government." Results-oriented trade policy refers to situation in which governments set policies that focus on the quantitative outcomes'This research was initiated while visiting the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at University of British Columbia, which I thank for their support and hospitality. I am grateful to Hirofumi Goto, Theresa Greaney, and Gene Grossman for helpful comments. Financial support from the Kajima Fbundation is gratefully acknowledged. 2Japan imposed voluntary restraints on most of the major exports to the United States such as color TV, steel, machine tools, and automobiles.