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New-New Trade Policy

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  • Ciuriak, Dan
  • Lapham, Beverly
  • Wolfe, Robert
  • Collins-Williams
  • Curtis, John M.

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When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don't trade, ¯rms do. This focus on the importance of the ¯rm in international trade is consistent with the most recent developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch up. Recognizing the growing anomalies in observed trade patterns relative to traditional models of trade based on national comparative advantage, the \new trade theory" of the 1980s looked at industries not countries, leading Nobel prize-winner Paul Krugman, a pioneer in this literature, to suggest the need for a new trade policy. Recent work on what some call the \new-new trade theory" focuses on the trading behaviour of individual ¯rms, making a tight link between trade and productivity. In this paper we demonstrate how focusing on ¯rms should be the foundation for a new-new trade policy, one that creates exciting opportunities for trade and investment promotion strategies, along with the need for much more targeted consultation strategies. We also discuss the implications of the new-new theory for regulatory coordination, and on new ways to cooperate with interlocutors in developing countries on the evolution of 21st century trade policy.

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  • Ciuriak, Dan & Lapham, Beverly & Wolfe, Robert & Collins-Williams & Curtis, John M., 2011. "New-New Trade Policy," Queen's Economics Department Working Papers 273762, Queen's University - Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:quedwp:273762
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.273762
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    • Dan Ciuriak & Terry Collins-Williams & John M. Curtis & Beverly Lapham & Robert Wolfe, 2011. "New-new Trade Policy," Working Paper 1263, Economics Department, Queen's University.

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    1. Santos, Eleonora, 2017. "Externalities from FDI on domestic firms’ Productivity: A Literature Review for Developed Countries," MPRA Paper 88958, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Baddeley, Shane & Cheng, Peter & Wolfe, Robert, 2011. "Trade Policy Implications of Carbon Labels on Food," Commissioned Papers 122740, Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network.
    3. Flentø, Daniel & Ponte, Stefano, 2017. "Least-Developed Countries in a World of Global Value Chains: Are WTO Trade Negotiations Helping?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 366-374.
    4. Santos, Eleonora & Khan, Shahed, 2018. "Determinant Factors of Pecuniary Externalities," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 6(8), pages 180-198.
    5. Zdzisław W. Puślecki, 2016. "Bilateral trade agreements and the rise of global supply chains," Journal of Economic and Financial Studies (JEFS), LAR Center Press, vol. 4(5), pages 17-23, October.
    6. Zdzislaw W. Puslecki, 2018. "The Increasing Importance of Bilateral Agreements in the Foreign Trade Policy," Journal of Management and Strategy, Journal of Management and Strategy, Sciedu Press, vol. 9(1), pages 19-30, February.

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    • F00 - International Economics - - General - - - General
    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations

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