Handbook of International Trade, Volume 1

This handbook is a detailed exploration of the theories, policies, and issues stemming from the field of International Trade. Written by specialists in the field, the chapters focus on four important areas: factor proportions theory, trade policy, investment, and new trade theory. The extensive analysis covers such topics as the Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Model and the Stolper-Samuelson Price Link, as well as wages, antidumping, and political economics.The book includes a comprehensive introduction by the editors, which summarizes recent advances in the field and places the research in a broader context. These complex and well-conceived articles, supplemented with an extensive bibliography, make the Handbook of International Trade an indispensable resource.

E. Kwan Choi is Professor of Economics at Iowa State University and the Editor of Review of International Economics. He is also Associate Editor of Japanese Economic Review and Managing Editor of Review of Development Economics. Prof. Choi has published in many top journals, including Economica, Journal of Development Economics, and International Economic Review.

James Harrigan is a Senior Economist in the International Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has also taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University, and is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former co-editor of The Journal of International Economics.

Figures

vii

Tables

ix

Contributors

xi

Introduction

1

(4)

James Harrigan

Part I: Factor Proportions Theory

1 Trade Theory and Factor Intensities: An Interpretative Essay

5

(27)

Ronald W. Jones

2 Implications of Many Industries in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

32

(28)

E. Kwan Choi

3 Robustness of the Stolper-Samuelson Intensity Price Link

60

(25)

Henry Thompson

4 Specialization and the Volume of Trade: Do the Data Obey the Laws?

85

(34)

James Harrigan

5 The Factor Content of Trade

119

(27)

Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein

6 Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality: A Survey of Trade and Wages

146

(40)

Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson

7 External Economies in the International Trade Theory: A Survey

186

(27)

Jai-Young Choi and Eden S.H. Yu

Part II: Trade Policy

8 The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Empirical Approaches

213

(38)

Kishore Gaveande and Pravin Krishna

9 Antidumping

251

(36)

Bruce A. Blomgen and Thomas J. Prusa

Part III: Investment

10 Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Firms: Concepts, History, and Data

287

(33)

Robert E. Lipsey

11 General-Equilibrium Approaches to the Multinational Enterprise: A Review of Theory and Evidence

320

(33)

James R. Markusen and Keith E. Maskus

Part IV: New Trade Theory

12 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production, and Income: A Survey of Empirics

353

(35)

Henry G. Overman, Stephen Redding, and Anthony J. Venables

13 Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on "New" Trade Theories

388

(28)

James R. Tybout

Index

416

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