"This book is a brilliant exploration of the implications of recent theories of international trade for one of the most important questions in the field: how large are the gains from trade? Feenstra takes the models apart to shed light on the basic mechanisms at play and then masterfully uses the data to understand their quantitative significance."--AndrTs Rodriquez-Clare, Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University -- Book Jacket.
Monopolistic competition models have required new empirical methods to implement their theoretical insights, however, and in this book Robert Feenstra describes methods that have been developed to measure the product variety of imports and ...
This updated second edition of the essential graduate textbook in international trade brings readers to the forefront of knowledge in the field and prepares students to undertake their own research.
The 1980s have seen significant advances in coordinating analyses of foreign trade with those of industrial organization. Contributors to this volume illuminate topics in trade theory, including the role of...
International Trade is a split volume from the text, covering: • Offshoring of goods and services (Chapter 6) • Tariffs and quotas under imperfect competition (Chapter 9) • International agreements on trade, labor, and the environment ...
Robert C. Feenstra, Alan M. Taylor ... Max, 75 Beggar-thy-neighbor policy, 579 Beijing Automotive (BAIC), 278 Beijing Jeep, 276 Belgium in European Union, 133n labor productivity and wages in,108f Bentsen, Lloyd, 250 Bergsten, C. Fred, ...
Imperfect Competition and International Trade: The Policy Aspects of Intra Industry Trade
International Macroeconomics is available as a separate volume for the international finance module. The text seamlessly integrates established core content with topic areas and ideas that have emerged from recent empirical studies.
This important feature of international trade rests on thorough theoretical insights.35 Empirically, ... Feenstra, 'Restoring the Product Variety and ProCompetitiveness Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms and Bounded Productivity' ...
This result is an example of the “Washington apples” effect, named after an example given by Alchian and Allen (1964, ... Maximizing (9.4) over the choice of prices qi, we obtain the first-order conditions g(z ) T jjj qj z H 2d j j q ...
American Economic Review, 89(3), 605–618. ... In and M. C. Osmel Manzano, Sebastián Auguste (Ed.), Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic (pp. 21–76).