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32 Va. J. Int'l L. 837 (1991-1992)
Investment Contests and Subsidy Limitations in the EC

handle is hein.journals/vajint32 and id is 847 raw text is: Investment Contests and Subsidy
Limitations in the EC
JEFFERY ATIKt
Introduction  .................................................  838
I. Investment Subsidies and Locational Decisions .......... 845
A. Investment Subsidies and Private Decisions ........ 845
B. Broad and Narrow Locational Decisions ........... 847
II. Investment Competition and the Capture of Subsidies ... 848
A. Locational Advantage and Neutrality .............. 848
B. Effect of Investment Competition on Subsidies ...... 849
III. Models of Investment Contests ......................... 850
A.   Assumptions .......................................  850
B. Game 1: One-Round, Open Bidding, Locational
N eutrality  .........................................  851
C. Game 2: One-and-a-Half-Round, Open Bidding,
Locational Neutrality .............................. 853
D. Non-Finite Games, Closed Bidding ................ 855
E. Presence of Locational Advantage .................. 856
IV. Strategies of the Firm and the Rival States .............. 858
A. Strategies of the Firm .............................. 858
B. Strategies of the Rival States ....................... 858
V. Existing Limits on the Provision of Investment Subsidies
in  the  EC  ..............................................  861
A. GATT-Imposed Limits ............................ 861
B.  EC  Limits  .........................................  862
t Associate Professor, Suffolk University Law School. &B. 1976, University of California
at Berkeley, J.D. 1982, Yale University. Portions of this Article were presented at the
European International Business Association annual meeting held in Copenhagen, December
15-17, 1991. Margaret Pearson, Marin Scordato and Joel Trachtman provided helpful
criticism. I am most grateful for the research assistance of James Romeo, Keith Sjoholm and
Thomas T. Tuttle.

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