How the United States Marched the Semiconductor Industry into Its Trade War with China

The US-China trade war forced a reluctant semiconductor industry into someone else’s fight, a very different position from its leading role in the 1980s trade conflict with Japan. This paper describes how the political economy of the global semiconductor industry has evolved since the 1980s. That in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chad P. Bown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy 2020-12-01
Series:East Asian Economic Review
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.11644/KIEP.EAER.2020.24.4.384