出版社：Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration
摘要：This paper describes the patterns of trade in an oligopolistic international
market. In a two country model, firms which share common technology can become
either national or multinational. In the latter case, they require asymmetric
plant-specific fixed costs. As the production costs and market sizes of the
countries converge, intra-industry trade and foreign direct investment (FDI)
occur. Then the supply logistics of firms in each country are determined by the
level of trade costs and the ease with which FDI can be undertaken. The effects
of several trade policies are examined within the above context and the
applicability of the model is demonstrated with examples from the Japanese
automobile industry. (JEL Classifi-cation: F12, F23)
