Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment

Hideki Yamawaki is Professor of Management at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management in Claremont Graduate University. Formerly, he was Professor of Economics at the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium. From 1982 to 1990 he was Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung in Germany. Professor Yamawaki has published numerous articles in professional journals and volumes during the past 20 years in the fields of industrial organization, international trade and investment, and international business strategy. His research has focused on examining the behavior and performance of U.S., European, and Japanese corporations in international markets. Hideki Yamawaki has served as a consultant to government agencies as well as the European Commission, the World Bank, and the OECD. In 1995, he was appointed as a member of the Economic Advisory Group at the European Commission. In the past, he served as an associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Managing Editor of International Journal of Industrial Organization.

1. Introduction; 2. Export pricing under imperfect competition; 3. Export price, learning, and domestic demand disturbances; 4. Foreign market structure, export price, and profitability; 5. Competitive advantage and export performance; 6. Entry into European and US manufacturing industries; 7. Strategic interactions in cross-market entry; 8. Response of foreign rivals to Japanese competition; 9. Concentrated entry and exit in US manufacturing; 10. Conclusions; 11. Implications.