CEPR sponsored a policy session on `Strategic Trade Policy' on 27 Marchat the Royal Economic Society Conference at Nottingham. The session was organized by David Ulph, a Research Fellow in the Centre's International Trade programme. The papers presented were as follows:

`Why Industrial Policies Fail: Lack of Commitment', by Larry Karp (University of Southampton and CEPR)

`Strategic Manpower Policy and Trade', by David Ulph (University of Bristol and CEPR) and L Alan Winters (University of Wales, Bangor, and CEPR)

`Trade Policy under Imperfect Competition', by Anthony Venables (University of Southampton and CEPR)

`The European Car Market', by Alasdair Smith (University of Sussex and CEPR)