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This chapter analyzes the intense national rivalry between the United States and Japan in the semiconductor industry. It views this national rivalry -- which has existed despite the industry’s globalization and the increasing importance of U.S.Japan interfirm strategic alliances -- in the context of imperfect and dynamic competition among private firms that either seek government intervention to their advantage or confront such intervention to their disadvantage. It focuses on the recent acrimonious controversy surrounding the dumping of Japanese memory chips in the United States and the restricted access of U.S. chip firms to the Japanese market.
The author would like to thank Bo Carlsson and Gerhard Rosegger for helpful comments.
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Erdilek, A. (1989). The U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement in the Globalization of Imperfect and Dynamic Competition. In: Carlsson, B. (eds) Industrial Dynamics. Studies in Industrial Organization, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1075-1_10
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