International Trade and Industrial Organization: Some Statistical Evidence

Abstract

A modest trickle of research has now begun to fill the gap between traditional lines of research in the fields of international trade (general-equilibrium, normative, anti-empirical) and industrial organization (closed-economy, partial-equilibrium, atheoretical). International linkages can affect competition in domestic markets (Esposito and Esposito, 1971; Caves, 1974; Pagoulatos and Sorenson, 1976b), and competitive conditions in product markets can change the extent of an industry’s participation in international trade (White, 1974; Pagoulatos and Sorenson, 1976a).