International Trade in Goods and Factor Mobility

Name: International Trade in Goods and Factor Mobility
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ISBN: 9780262231794

ISBN-10: 0262231794

ISBN-13: 9780262231794

Edition: 1995

Authors: Kar-yiu Wong

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This up-to-date synthesis of the basic tools and survey results in international trade theory is unique in giving factor mobility equal billing with goods trade, highlighting factor flows in the context of a mainstream approach to trade theory. The importance of the international flow of factors has grown in recent decades, primarily because of increasing returns, imperfect competition, multinational corporations, and labor migration; theories of factor mobility and trade in goods can no longer be lumped together. Using sophisticated techniques, as well as simple economic intuitions and easy-to-follow diagrams, Kar-yiu Wong systematically presents within unified frameworks all the basic…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/26/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 714
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



General Equilibrium with Constant Returns and Perfect Competition



Comparative Advantage and Factor Content of Trade



International Goods Trade and Capital Movement



External Economies of Scale



Monopolistic Competition and Intraindustry Trade in Differentiated Products



Oligopoly and Intraindustry Trade in Identical Products



Core Theorems of the Welfare Economics of International Trade



Gains from Trade for Economies with Imperfections



Theory of Distortions and Optimal Policy Intervention



Commercial Policies with Trade in Goods and Factor Mobility



Strategic Trade Policies



The Multinational Corporation



International Labor Migration


References


Index