Trade Policy and Corporate Business Decisions

U.S. trade policy significantly affects both domestic and world economic conditions, though a gap exists between large political issues of trade policy and day-to-day corporate business decisions in America. This collection provides a bridge between U.S. trade policies (actual and expected) and the financial, marketing, operations, organizational, and strategic aspects of corporate business policy, presenting analysis of trade policy and its volatility, and exploring its effects on the functional activities of corporations.

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Contributors; Introduction; Tamir Agmon and Christine R. Hekman: Trade policies and corporate business decisions: Insight and lessons; Part One: The stability and the risk associated with U.S. trade policy: Richard L. Drobnick and Slwin Enzer: The consequences of balanced trade between the U.S. and its Pacific rim trading partners; John Odell and Thomas D. Willett: U.S. trade policy, free trade, and protectionism: Policy stability and corporate risk; Jonathan D. Aronson: Building blocks for the U.S. trade policy in the 1990s; Tamir Agmon and Clas Wihlborg: A probabilistic estimate of international trade risk: Quantifications of trade policy outcomes; Part Two: Understanding the relationship between the aggregate configuration of trade policy and corporate performance; Tamir Agmon and Clas Wihlborg: International trade risk and the cost of flexibility in capital investment; Thomas G. Cummings and Maria Nathan: Organizational structure and environmental change; Rueven Horesh: Strategic planning for possible changes in the trade policy; Wesley J. Johnston: Protectionism and marketing strategies for U.S. firms; Ingo Walter: International trade and protection in financial services; William H. Davidson: The impact of trade policies on multinational operations: Strategy and performance; Christine R. Hekman: Trade barriers and currency risk; Corporate responses to trade policies: Three case histories; Thomas A. Pugel: Japanese and American response to trade friction: The semiconductor industry; Johny K. Johansson: Stronger Yen and the U.S. Japanese trade balance: Marketing policies of Japanese firms in the U.S. market; Victor A. Canto and J. Kimbal Dietrick: The effect of restrictive trade policies on the earnings and the employment levels in the protected industries