Competition and Trade Policy

A CEPR workshop on ‘Competition and Trade Policy’ was held in Barcelona on 19/20 December 1997. The workshop was hosted by the Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica and the organizers were Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and CEPR), Jordi Gual (Universidad de Navarra and CEPR), Massimo Motta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and CEPR) and Pierre Regibeau (Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC), Barcelona, and CEPR).

The following papers were presented:

‘Union Wage Bargaining and European Anti-dumping Policy’
Reinhilde Veugelers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Jozef Konings (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and CEPR) and
Hylke Vandenbussche (UFSIA, Antwerp, and CEPR)

‘The Equilibrium Ownership of an International Oligopoly’
Lars Persson (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm)
Henrik Horn (World Trade Organization, Geneva, and CEPR) and
John Fingleton (Trinity College Dublin and CEPR)  

‘Mergers and Trade Policy Under Oligopoly’
David R Collie (Cardiff Business School)

‘Beat ’em or Join ’em?: Export Subsidies versus International Research Joint Ventures in Oligopolistic Markets’
J Peter Neary (University College Dublin and CEPR) and
Paul O’Sullivan (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

‘Anti-dumping and Competition Policy in Regional Agreements’
Bernard Hoekman (World Bank and CEPR)

‘Market Definition for Media Mergers’
Bruce R Lyons (University of East Anglia, Norwich)

‘Strategic Trade and Industrial Policy Towards Dynamic Oligopolies’
Dermot Leahy (University College Dublin and CEPR) and
J Peter Neary (University College Dublin and CEPR)

‘European Anti-dumping Policy and the Profitability of National and International Collusion’
Reinhilde Veugelers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and
Hylke Vandenbussche (UFSIA, Antwerp, and CEPR)