Industrial Policies & Economic Trade Models

An industrial policy attempts to provide an economic environment that either (1) supports industrial development generally, or (2) promotes the development of specific industries or sectors of an economy. Such a policy might include (1) tax incentives to support either investment or exports, (2) subsidies·direct or indirect·to industrial firms or industries, (3) protection against foreign competition, (4) worker training programs, (5) funding·full or participating·for research and development, (6) grants and loans to support (a) regional development, (b) the development of specific industries, or (c) small business, (7) export financing, (8) loans and loan underwriting to support (a) exports, (b) specific sectors of a domestic economy, or (c) specific firms, (9) price supports, and (10) anti-trust, and (11) related policies.

National economies around the world are more dependent on one another than at any time in the past. The increasing globalization of the economic sphere of life has ushered in a period wherein economic policies implemented by a major industrial power affect not only the national economy of that specific country, but also affect the level and character of economic activity in all other countries. This research examines the advantages and disadvantages of industrial policies in the contemporary period within the context of economic trade models and theory. The findings of this e

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are obstacles which prevent goods and services from moving freely between countries. Most trade barriers are imposed by national governments, although they are most often imposed at the insistence of or with the support of domestic industry and labor organizations. The major formal barriers to international trade are tariffs and quotas. A tariff is an import tax. It is designed to restrict the flow of goods into a country, by causing them to be too expensive to compete with domestically produced goods. A quota also seeks to restrict the flow of goods into a country. It does so through a direct restriction on the number of items which may be imported, however, as opposed to an attempt to price the goods out of the market. The agricultural subsidies and quotas applied by the United States and the European community thwart the comparative advantage that Australia otherwise would have in relation to many products. The Heckscher-Ohlin theory holds that a country will tend to export the commodities that use relatively more of the factors of production which are relatively more abundant in that country. The theory is based on an assumption that different countries have different quantities of the factors of production·land, raw
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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