ontents of RIE: Volume 12

Volume 12, Issue 1, February 2004

Contents

The Single Market and Geographic Concentration in Europe
Karl Aiginger and Michael Pfaffermayr

Trade Policy in a Vertically Related Industry
Winston W. Chang and Hajime Sugeta

The Political Economy of the A Minimum Wage Institution@ in an Internationally Integrated Market
Emmanuel Petrakis and Minas Vlassis

Intertemporal Borrowing, Specialization, and Unemployment in a Small Open Economy
Patrick N. Osakwe and Shouyong Shi

Domestic and Foreign Price-Marginal Cost Margins: An Application to Spanish Manufacturing Firms
Loudes Moreno and Diego Rodriguez

Protection for Sale and Trade Liberalization: An Empirical Investigation
Phillip McCalman

Tariff Rate as a Public Good
Takeshi Yamazaki

Trade Performances, Product Quality Perceptions, and the Estimation of Trade Price Elasticities
Matthieu Crozet and Hélène Erkel-Rousse

The Non-Equivalence of Import and Export Quotas in Strategic Equilibrium
Harvey Lapan and Jean-Philippe Gervais

Voluntary Export Restraints under Imperfect Competition
Masayuki Okawa

Logic of Aid in an Intertemporal Setting
Slobodan Djajic, Sajal Lahiri and Pascalis Raimondos-Møller

Half-lives of Deviations from PPP: Contrasting Traded and Non-traded Components of Consumption Baskets
Jaebeom Kim

Book Reviews
Wilfrid W. Csaplar, Jr.
Carsten Eckel
Ricardo Faini

Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2004 Special Issue, Economic Agenda for the 21st Century

Contents

Introduction to the Special Issue: Economic Agenda for the 21st Century
Karl Aiginger
The Economic Agenda: A View from the United States
Michael Boskin
The Economic Agenda: A View from Europe
Karl Aiginger
A Personal Agenda for the Next Decade
Kenneth J. Arrow

The EU Growth Strategy and the Impact of Ageing
Karl Pichelmann and Werner Roeger
Ageing, Public Budgets and the Need for Policy Reform
Jørgen Elmeskov
Productivity Growth, the New Economy, and Catching Up
Barry Eichengreen
The US Current Account, New Economy Services, and Implications for Sustainability
Catherine L. Mann
Reform of European Merger Policy
Bruce R. Lyons
What Happened to the Japanese Model?
Ulrike Schaede

Book Reviews
Hartmut Egger
Somesh K. Mathur
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik

Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2004

Contents

Political Externalities, Nondiscrimination and a Multilateral World
Wilfred J. Ethier

Multilateral Reforms of Trade and Environmental Policy
Arja H. Turunen-Red and Alan D. Woodland

Code-Sharing Agreements and Interconnection in Markets for International Flights
Orit Hassin and Oz Shy

Trade Liberalization and the Profitability of Domestic Mergers
Gérard Gaudet and Rams Kanouni

Do Patent Rights Regimes Matter?
Catherine Y. Co

Semi-Nonparametric Estimates of Currency Substitution: The Demand for Sterling in Europe
Leigh Drake and Adrian R. Fleissig

Regionalism and Multilateral Trade Liberalization with Asymmetric Countries
Costas Hadjiyiannis

Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles
Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

On Assisting Domestic Industries under Bertrand Competition
Dominik Egli and Frank Westermann

Interannual Climate Variation, Climate Prediction and Agricultural Trade: The Costs of Surprises versus Variability
Daniel G. Hallstrom

Pricing in Segmented Markets, Arbitrage Barriers and the Law of One Price: Evidence from the European Car Market
Mattias Lutz

Job Creation, Job Destruction and the International Division of Labor
Marion Jansen and Alessandro Turrini

The Bundesbank’s Inflation Policy and Asymmetric Behavior of the German Term Structure
Martin T. Bohl and Pierre L. Siklos

Pricing in International Markets: a ‘small country’ benchmark
David C. Parsley

Why Do More Open Chinese Provinces Have Bigger Governments?
Ping Hua

Tariff Wars and Trade Deals with Costly Government
John Burbidge and Gordon Myers

Volume 12, Issue 4, September 2004

Contents

Vertical Price Control and Parallel Imports: Theory and Evidence
Keith E. Maskus and Yongmin Chen

Capital Controls: A Political Economy Approach
Laura Alfaro

The Gains from Trade and Policy Reform Revisited
W. Erwin Diewert and Alan D. Woodland

Foreign Investment and the Mediation of Trade Flows
Deborah L. Swenson

Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Maurice Schiff

Vertically Integrated North-South Trade and the Redux Model
Juan Antonio Garcia-Cebro and Ramon Varela-Santamaria

Entry, Expansion and Intensity in the US Export Boom, 1987-1992
Andrew B. Bernard and J. Bradford Jensen

Trade Policy and Access to Retail Distribution
Martin Richardson

Adam Smith and Noneconomic Objectives
Bruce Elmslie

Patterns of Corporate Financing and Financial System Convergence in Europe
Victor Murinde, Juda Agung and Andy Mullineux

From Segmented Markets to Integrated Markets: An Analysis of Economic Integration and Antidumping Legislations
Jota Ishikawa

Contents

Guest Editor: David Greenaway

Introduction
David Greenaway

Trade-Related Job Loss and Wage Insurance: A Synthetic Review
Lori G. Kletzer

An Overlapping-Generations Model of Escape Clause Protection
Carl Davidson and Steven J. Matusz

Structural Change and the Labor Market Effects of Globalization
Noel Gaston and Doug Nelson

Aspects of International Fragmentation
Wilhelm Kohler

Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity: Evidence from UK establishment level data
Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg

Two Dimensions of Convergence: National and International Wage Adjustment Effects of Cross-Border Outsourcing in Europe
Peter Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr

'Export Experience' Under Borrowing Constraints
Saqib Jafarey and Sajal Lahiri

Does Exporting Increase Productivity? A Microeconometric Analysis of Matched Firms
Sourafel Girma, David Greenaway and Richard Kneller

Outsourcing under Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property
Amy Jocelyn Glass