International Trade and International Investment

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International Trade and International Investment

9781788974431 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Professor of Economics, “Achille and Giulia Boroli” Chair in European Studies, Bocconi University, Italy
Publication Date: 2020 ISBN: 978 1 78897 443 1 Extent: 704 pp
This comprehensive collection highlights the core debates on international trade and investment, covering main issues such as welfare gains and losses, trade patterns and international transaction interventions. Reflecting an unprecedented wave of studies on these topics in recent decades, this collection collates central and timely literature on these important topics. The insights contained in the selection of papers in this volume are the products of a unique period for academic research in international economics and so alongside an original introduction by the editor, this authoritative collection makes the perfect source of reference for scholars and students alike.

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This comprehensive collection highlights the core debates on international trade and investment, covering main issues such as welfare gains and losses, trade patterns and international transaction interventions. Reflecting an unprecedented wave of studies on these topics in recent decades, this collection collates central and timely literature on these important topics. The insights contained in the selection of papers in this volume are the products of a unique period for academic research in international economics and so alongside an original introduction by the editor, this authoritative collection makes the perfect source of reference for scholars and students alike.
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27 articles, dating from 1979 to 2012
Contributors include: P. Àntras, A. Bernard, J. Eaton, R. Feenstra, G. Grossman, E. Helpman, P. Krugman, M. Melitz, S. Redding, A. Venables
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Part I From Macro to Micro
1. R. Dornbusch, S. Fischer and P.A. Samuelson (1977), ‘Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods’, American Economic Review, 67 (5), December, 823–39 2

2. Paul R. Krugman (1979), ‘Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition, and International Trade’, Journal of International Economics, 9 (4), November, 469–79 19

3. Paul Krugman (1980), ‘Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade’, American Economic Review, 70 (5), December, 950–59 30

4. Elhanan Helpman (1981), ‘International Trade in the Presence of Product Differentiation, Economies of Scale and Monopolistic Competition: a Chamberlin–Heckscher–Ohlin Approach’, Journal of International Economics, 11 (3), August, 305–40 40

5. Wilfred J. Ethier (1982), ‘National and International Returns to Scale in the Modern Theory of International Trade’, American Economic Review, 72 (3), June, 389–405 76

6. James Brander and Paul Krugman (1983), ‘A “Reciprocal Dumping” Model of International Trade’, Journal of International Economics, 15 (3–4), November, 313–21 93

7. Elhanan Helpman (1984), ‘A Simple Theory of International Trade with Multinational Corporations’, Journal of Political Economy, 92 (3), June, 451–71 102

8. James R. Markusen (1984), ‘Multinationals, Multi-Plant Economies, and the Gains from Trade’, Journal of International Economics, 16 (3–4), May, 205–26 123

9. Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman (1991), ‘Quality Ladders in the Theory of Growth’, Review of Economic Studies, 58 (193), January, 43–61 145

10. Paul Krugman (1991), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’, Journal of Political Economy, 99 (3), June, 483–99 164

11. Robert C. Feenstra (1994), ‘New Product Varieties and the Measurement of International Prices’, American Economic Review, 84 (1), March, 157–77 181

12. Paul Krugman and Anthony J. Venables (1995), ‘Globalization and the Inequality of Nations’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, CX (4), November, 857–80 202

13. Daniel Trefler (1995), ‘The Case of the Missing Trade and
Other Mysteries’, American Economic Review, 85 (5), December, 1029–46 226

14. Werner Antweiler, Brian R. Copeland and M. Scott Taylor (2001), ‘Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?’, American Economic Review, 91 (4), September, 877–908 244

15. Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum (2002), ‘Technology, Geography, and Trade’, Econometrica, 70 (5), September, 1741–79 276

16. Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman (2002), ‘Integration versus Outsourcing in Industry Equilibrium’, Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 117 (1), February, 85–120 315

Part II From Micro to Macro
17. Marc J. Melitz (2003), ‘The Impact of Trade on Intra-industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity’, Econometrica, 71 (6), November, 1695–725 352

18. Andrew B. Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Bradford Jensen and Samuel Kortum (2003), ‘Plants and Productivity in International Trade’, American Economic Review, 93 (4), September, 1268–90 383

19. Pol Antràs (2003), ‘Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (4), November, 1375–418 406

20. Elhanan Helpman, Marc J. Melitz and Stephen R. Yeaple (2004), ‘Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms’, American Economic Review, 94 (1), March, 300–316 450

21. Pol Antràs and Elhanan Helpman (2004), ‘Global Sourcing’, Journal of Political Economy, 112 (3), 552–80 467

22. Stephen Ross Yeaple (2005), ‘A Simple Model of Firm Heterogeneity, International Trade, and Wages’, Journal of International Economics, 65 (1), January, 1–20 496

23. Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott (2007), ‘Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms’, Review of Economic Studies, 74 (1), January, 31–66 516

24. Marc J. Melitz and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano (2008), ‘Market Size, Trade, and Productivity’, Review of Economic Studies, 75 (3), January, 295–316 552

25. Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2008), ‘Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring’, American Economic Review, 98 (5), December, 1978–97 574

26. Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding (2010), ‘Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy’, Econometrica, 78 (4), July, 1239–83 594

27. Costas Arkolakis, Arnaud Costinot and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare (2012), ‘New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?’, American Economic Review, 102 (1), February, 94–130 639

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