MITI'S INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

[Development, health-industrial complex and industrial policy].

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

Industrial Policy

Oligopoly and Industrial Organization

This is a chapter of a book manuscript entitled Topics in Microeconomics . Comments, criticism and recommendations are welcome. The chapter starts with an elementary introduction to the three basic oligopoly theories, associated with the names of Cournot, Bertrand and Stackelberg. These theories are then covered in depth, including generalizations, extensions to entry, exit, and capacity choice...

Industrial Policy and Growth

Introduction The paper will review the impact of industrial policy on growth in developing countries from the 1960s until the present. This is a propitious time to conduct such an assessment. Within policy-making and academic circles, extremely critical views of state intervention in general, and industrial policy in particular, are no longer as dominant, and have given way to more nuanced appr...

On the role of empirical industrial organization in competition policy

Available online 8 December 2010