研討日期

2004年7月24日上午10:00 ~ 13:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院第二十五教室

討論文獻

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作者

文獻出處

North-South Competition, Policy Rivalry and Profitability

Satya P. Das and Subhadip Ghosh

Discussion Papers in Economics 03-07, June 2003

報告人

王胤杰

參加人員

黃鴻、林燕淑、楊雅博、吳世傑、梁文榮、陳更生、王光正、蔡宗秀、陳宏易、許淑女英、陳秀華、王胤杰

討論提要

In the strategic trade policy literature, the firms typically make positive profits at equilibrium policy levels.  We show that this is not always true when firms from the developed (North) and developing (South) countries compete in the Northern market.  In particular, the South firm may be pushed out of the Northern market.  On the other hand, the Northern firm always maintains a market share in the South market in policy equilibrium.  The critical assumption is that the Northern firms produce products of a superior quality than do their Southern counterparts.

結論

This paper has explored a model that captures some of the features of global competition that is typical in the present post liberalization era: that is, firms from the North and the South compete in different regions of the world market, with the North firms usually producing brands of a superior quality.  The main result is that in the North markets, in the presence of policy rivalry, the South firms may not survive.  On the other hand, in the South markets, the North firms always survive.  This result then provides a theory as to why the firms from developing countries have historically struggled to get a foothold in the developed country markets, while firms from the developed countries have managed to keep some market share in the South.

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