Regional Free Trade Areas and Strategic Trade Policies

Part I. The Formation of Free Trade Agreements

1. Expansion of Free Trade Agreements, Overlapping Free Trade Agreements,and Market Size
Ryoichi Nomura, Takao Ohkawa, Makoto Okamura, Makoto Tawada

2. The Feasibility of Multilateral Free Trade and Mode of Competition: Stackelberg Versus Cournot Competitions
Ryoichi Nomura

3. Sustainability of Free Trade Agreements Under a Maximum Revenue Tariff
Makoto Okamura, Takao Ohkawa

4. Technology Choice, Firm Behavior, and Free Trade Agreements
Ryoichi Nomura, Makoto Okamura, Takao Ohkawa

Part II. The Timing of Trade Policies

5. Endogenous Timing in Trade Policy Under the Three-Country Model
Takao Ohkawa, Makoto Okamura, Makoto Tawada

6. Endogenous Timing Decision on Trade Policies Between Importing and Exporting Countries with Many Firms
Yordying Supasri, Makoto Tawada

Part III. The Roles of Trade Policies

7. Government Intervention Brings About Free-Trade Outcomes in the Long Run
Takao Ohkawa, Masayuki Hayashibara, Ryoichi Nomura, Makoto Okamura

8. Optimum Welfare and Maximum Revenue Tariff Under Oligopoly: A Note
Masayuki Hayashibara

9. Cost Asymmetries and Import Tariff Policy in a Vertically Related Industry
Yasushi Kawabata

Part IV. Food and Trade Policies

10. Strategic Trade Policy and Food Trade
Makoto Tawada, Madoka Okimoto

11. International Price Competition Among Food Industries: The Role of Income, Population, and Biased Consumer Preference
Madoka Okimoto

Nyckelord: Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Trade, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods