International Trade - Softcover

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE; Trade in the Global Economy; PART TWO: PATTERNS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE; Trade and Technology: The Ricardian Model; Gains and Losses from Trade in the Specific-Factors Model; Trade and Resources: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model; Movement of Labor and Capital Between Countries; PART THREE: NEW EXPLANATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE; Increasing Returns to Scale and Imperfect Competition; Foreign Outsourcing of Goods and Services; PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICIES; Import Tariffs and Quotas under Perfect Competition; Import Tariffs and Quotas under Imperfect Competition; Export Subsidies in Agriculture and High Technology Industries; International Agreements: Trade, Labor and the Environment.

ROBERT C FEENSTRA is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, USA. He also directs the International Trade and Investment program at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a former editor of the Journal of International Economics and an associate editor of the American Economic Review). In September 2006 he received the Bernhard-Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute of World Economics in Germany. ALAN M TAYLOR is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and the Journal of International Money and Finance.