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Multinational firms and the theory of international trade
Despite the great importance of multinational firms in international economics, theoretical and empirical research on these firms has generally been conducted separately from that on international trade. In this book, James Markusen provides a comprehensive integration of the two fields. Drawing on twenty years of research, he focuses on the interaction of scale economies, trade costs, factor e…
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- 9780262279154
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 440 pages) :illustrations
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The craft of economics :lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework
In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher--Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn't do. Claiming "a lifetime relationship with Heckscher--Ohlin," Leamer argues that Bertil Ohlin's original idea offered something useful though vag…
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- 9780262301589
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- 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) :illustrations.
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Comparative Political Economy: A Retrospective
The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277143
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- 1 online resource (viii, 500 pages) :illustrations
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Contracts in Trade and Transition: The Resurgence of Barter
An institutional approach to explaining countertrade and barter in international trade and domestic trade in transition economies.Difficulties in contract enforcement impede international transactions in the world economy and domestic transactions in transition economies. In Contracts in Trade and Transition, Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer explain how barter as an economic institution can fac…
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- 9780262279123
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages) :illustrations
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Firms in the International Economy :Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Bu…
International Economics (IE) and International Business (IB) are usually treated as two separate disciplines. With the advent of new trade theory the firm was reintroduced in IE and the fields more and more discuss the same topics. This book shows that IE as well as IB could benefit from each other.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Illicit Trade and the Global Economy
Economists explore the relationship between expanding international trade and the parallel growth in illicit trade, including illegal drugs, smuggling, and organized crime.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262298686
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- 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) :illustrations.
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Rethinking international trade
Over the past decade, a small group of economists has challenged traditional wisdom about international trade. Rethinking International Trade provides a coherent account of this research program and traces the key steps in an exciting new trade theory that offers, among other possibilities, new arguments against free trade. Over the past decade a small group of economists has challenged traditi…
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- 0585343926
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- 1 online resource (viii, 282 pages) :illustrations
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The spatial economy :cities, regions, and international trade
Originally published: 1999.The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.Since 1990 there has been a renaissance of theoretical and empirical work on the spatial aspects of the economy--…
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- 9780262273329
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) :illustrations
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Global wine markets, 1860 to 2016: a statistical compendium
Until recently, most grape-based wine was consumed close to where it was produced, and mostly that was in Europe. Now more than two-fifths of all wine consumed globally is produced in another country, including in the Southern Hemisphere, the USA and Asia. This latest edition of global wine statistics not only updates data to 2016 but also adds another century of data. The motivation to assembl…
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A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, its role in the WTO and its institutional framework. It reviews the following areas: general provisions and basic principles; copyright and related rights; trademarks; geographical indications; patents; industrial designs, layout-designs, undisclosed information and anti-competitive practices; enforcement of IPR…
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