this area is explicitly game theoretic and contains a wide variety of models which often yield different results. For this reason. the literature in this area.
NBER Working Paper #3244 January 1990 EXPORT RESTRAINTS WITH IMPERFECT COMPETITION:
A SELECTIVE SURVEY
ABSTRACT
This paper is a selective survey of the work on the of export restraints
with imperfect competition. Although
are a number of excellent surveys of strategic whole.
not much
export
restraints per se.
this
area
is
attention is
paid in these
The large
explicitly game
variety of models which reason.
effects
serves as a guide to the
to the
and
effects of
literature in
contains
often yield different results.
the literature in this area
This survey provides
trade theory as a
and growing
theoretic
there
a wide For this
can be difficult to follow.
a stylized overview of
the area which
work. Short run effects are
contrasted
to long run effects. The short run effects usually studied are on pricing
behavior. Long
run effects are
multidimensional. These
include effects on quality choice and investment which often work in the opposite direction to the short run effects.
Kala Krishna Harvard University Littauer 215 Department of Economics Cambridge, MA 02138
