• Beyond trade costs : firms’ endogenous access to international markets 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working paper;38/13, Working paper, 2013-10)
      In this paper, we explore another factor besides trade costs that can affect firms’ exports: strategic interaction between firms in R&D investment. Three results can be highlighted. First, the volume of trade is higher in ...
    • International trade with competitiveness effects in R&D 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      In an oligopoly trade model where firms engage in R&D, international differences in market size allow for the emergence of endogenous asymmetries between firms. Concretely, firms located in countries with more demand become ...
    • Losers, winners and prisoner's dilemma in international subsidy wars 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)
      Two central results in the strategic trade literature are that governments shall support winners and that there is a policy prisoner dilemma in international subsidy wars (i.e.: countries have incentives to support local ...
    • Losers, winners and prisoner’s dilemma in international subsidy wars 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-10)
      Two central results in the strategic trade literature are that governments shall support winners and that there is a prisoner’s dilemma in international subsidy wars (i.e.: countries have incentives to support local firms ...
    • R&D and strategic industrial location in international oligopolies 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      In a spatial economy where Oligopolist firms compete in R&D, it is found that geography affects the innovative behaviour of firms. Notably, international differences in market size conduce to endogenous asymmetries between ...
    • R&D, strategic investment and multinational choice 

      Pires, Armando José Garcia (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-06)
      We analyse the influence of strategic R&D investment on the firms’ mode of foreign expansion: export versus multinational. Strategic investment allows a firm, not only to improve its own level of productive efficiency (as ...