Contemporary and emerging issues in trade theory and policy / edited by Sugata Marjit, Eden S.H. Yu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marjit, Sugata, 1959-

Yu, Eden Siu-hung.

Series:

Frontiers of economics and globalization ; v. 4.

Frontiers of economics and globalization, 1574-8715 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a new volume in the Frontiers in Economics & Globalization series. This book deals with a wide-range of trade and development issues in terms of well-known general equilibrium structure. This volume shows how neo-classical models of trade theory can be used to highlight many challenging contemporary global problems. This book is a new volume in the Frontiers in Economics & Globalization series. It deals with a wide-range of trade and development issues. It focuses on neo-classical models of trade theory to highlight the challenges of global trade problems.

Contents:

Something new for something old : reflections on a model with three factors and two goods / Stephen T. Easton

On commodity prices and factor rewards : a close look at sign patterns / Tapan Mitra

National security and international trade : a simple general equilibrium model / Ronald Findlay, Mohammad Amin

Comparative statics in a two-factor multi-commodity model without factor price equalization / Siu-kee Wong

Distortions in the two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model / Eric W. Bond, Robert A. Driskill

Specific factor models and dynamics in international trade / Yunfang Hu, Kazuo Nishimura, Koji Shimomura

Skill formation and income distribution in a three class small developing economy / Sugata Marjit

Foreign capital and skilled-unskilled wage inequality in a developing economy with non-traded goods / Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Shigemi Yabuuchi

Do factor endowments matter for north-north trade? / Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Trade, wage inequality and the vent for surplus / Brati Sankar Chakraborty, Abhirup Sarkar

Informed buyers and trade sanction against child labour : does it work? / Rajat Acharyya

Public inputs, urban development, and welfare in a developing economy / Chi-Chur Chao, Jean-Pierre Laffargue, Eden S.H. Yu

Contemporary and emerging issues in trade theory and policy / Sugata Marjit, Eden S.H. Yu

Moving people or jobs? A new perspective on immigration and international outsourcing / Hamid Beladi, Avik Chakrabarti

Commodity demand, capital mobility, and international trade : a ricardian approach / Morihiro Yomogida

International outsourcing under monopolistic competition : winners and losers / Viet Do, Ngo Van Long

The effect of new environment on foreign direct investment in an oligopolistic Heckscher-Ohlin model / Sajal Lahiri, Yoshiyasu Ono

International trade agreements / Wilfred J. Ethier

Competition policy as a substitute for tariff policy / Rika Takahashi, Jin Kenzaki, Makoto Yano

Free trade between large and small : what's in it for the large country? What's in it for the small? / Carsten Kowalczyk

Fragmented trade and the Hubspokes game strategic trade under the WTO / An-Chi Tung, Henry Wan

A simple vertical competition model: structure and performance / Roy J. Ruffin

Globalization, trade in middle products, and relative prices / Ulrich Kohli

Fixed transport costs and international trade / Didier Laussel, Raymond Riezman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786613682451

9781280771682

1280771682

9781849505413

1849505411

OCLC:

609843526