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Book SynopsisProviding insights on the products of a unique period for academic research in international economics, this review is an important piece of literature for a vital area of study. Highlighting main issues such as welfare gains and losses, trade patterns and international transaction interventions, the author provides a timely and comprehensive research review on the heavily debated topic of international trade and investment.
Table of ContentsContents 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 Index
