Market presence, contestability, and the terms-of-trade effects of regional integration

How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization...

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Main Author: Schiff, Maurice W.
Corporate Author: World Bank
Other Authors: Chang, Won
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C World Bank, Development Research Group, Trade 2001
Series:Policy research working paper
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization and increase its price reaction to preferential trade liberalization
Item Description:"January 2001"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references. - Title from title screen as viewed on Sept. 23, 2002