C ontents of RIE: Volume 14


Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2006


Contents

International Trade under Oligopoly Conditions
Roy Ruffin

Long-run Specialization
Yoshiyasu Ono and Akihisa Shibata

Factor Accmumulation without Diminishing Returns: The Case of East Asia
Peter Debaere and Ufuk Demiroglu

Factor Endowments and Industrial Structure
Trevor A. Reeve

Communication Costs and Trade of Differentiated Goods
Linghui Tang

Are Matched Partner Trade Statistics a Usable Measure of Transportation Costs?
David Hummels and Volodymyr Lugovskyy

Partial Privatization, Foreign Competition and Optimum Tariff
Chi-Chur Chao and Eden S. H. Yu

Illegal Immigration and Second Best Import Tariffs
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

Trade, Entry Barriers and Home Market Effects
Paul E. Jensen

Mean Reversion of Short Run Interest Rates in Emerging Countries
Bertrand Candelon and Luis A. Gil-Alana

A Stackelberg Game Model of Trade in Renewable Resources with Competitive Sellers
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

A Model of Trade Liberalization in Services
Clement Yuk Pang Wong, Jinhui Wu and Anming Zhang

Book Reviews
Carl Davidson
Henry Kim
Farhad Rassekh


Volume 14, Issue 2, May 2006


Contents

The Impact of Chinese Exports on Global Import Prices
Steven B. Kamin, Mario Marazzi, and John W. Schindler

Global production and currency devaluation
Laixun Zhao and Yuqing Xing

On the international linkages between trade and merger policies
Kamal Saggi and Halis Murat Yildiz

The intervention principle
Earl L. Grinols

Trans-boundary Pollution and international migration
Kenji Kondoh

Long-run lunacy, short-run sanity: A simple model of trade with labor market turnover
Carl Davidson and Steven J. Matusz

Strategic Exports and R&D with Internationally Mobile Skilled Labor and Exchange Rate Volatility
Sajal Lahiri and Fernando Mesa

Multinational firms and strategic FDI subsidies
Yasunori Ishii

Reconsidering real interest parity for traded and non-traded goods
Jaebeom Kim

Investment under trade policy uncertainty: an empirical investigation
Sasatra Sudsawasd and Robert E. Moore


Volume 14, Issue 3, August 2006


Contents

Rate-of-Return Parity in Experimental Asset Markets
Jason Childs and Stuart Mestelman

The Division and Size of Gains from Liberalization in Service Networks
Keshab Bhattarai and John Whalley

Gender Inequality and Trade
Matthias Busse and Christian Spielmann

Food Protection for Sale
Rigoberto A. Lopez and Xenia Matschke

Is the Border Really That Wild?
Janet Ceglowski

Multinational Corporations, Stackelberg Leadership and Tariff Jumping
Stuart Dixon

‘GATT-Think’ with Asymmetric Countries
Paolo Epifani and Juliette Vitaloni

On the Equivalence of Ad Valorem Tariffs and Specific Tariffs under Duopoly
Koon Lam Shea and Esther Y.P. Shea

Oligopsony Distortions and Welfare Implications of Trade
Stephen Devadoss and Wongun Song

The Torrens-Ricardo Principle of Comparative Advantage: An Extension
Murray C. Kemp and Masayuki Okawa

Foreign Direct Investment: Flows, Volatility and the Impact on Growth
Robert Lensink and Oliver Morrissey

Modelling Cultural Barriers to International Trade
István Kónya

Forum

Misleading Inferences from Panel Data: A Comment
George S. Ford, John D. Jackson and Audrey D. Kline

Misleading Inferences from Panel Data: A Reply
Janice Boucher Breuer, Robert McNown and Myles Wallace

Making Sense of the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: Comment on Batra
Daniel M. Bernhofen

Book Reviews
Catherine Yap Co
Slobodan Djajic
Noel Gaston
James C. Hartigan
William R. Melick
Sweta C. Saxena


Volume 14, Issue 4, September 2006

 


Contents

Pass-Through Estimates and the Choice of an Exchange Rate Index
Patricia S. Pollard and Cletus C. Coughlin

Exchange Rate Regime and Currency Crises: An Evaluation using Extreme Value Theory
Fasika Damte Haile and Susan Pozo

Transparency in the Foreign Exchange Market and the Volume of International Trade
Udo Broll and Bernhard Eckwert

Technology Transfer and Merger Activities with Trade and Tariffs
Cillian Ryan

Technology Sourcing and Strategic Foreign Direct Investment
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Carsten Eckel

Country Size and the Gains from Trade Bloc Enlargement: An Empirical Assessment for the European Community
Harald Badinger and Fritz Bruess

Tariffs vs. Quotas in a Model of Trade with Capital Accumulation
Giacomo Calzolari and Luca Lambertini

International Trade and Growth Miracles: The Implications of Non-Homothetic Preferences
Andrew Mountford

Multilateralism and Hub-and-Spoke Bilateralism
Hiroshi Mukunoki and Kentaro Tachi

Factor Price Equalization in a World of Many Trading Countries
Murray C. Kemp

An Extension of the Trade Restrictiveness Index to Large Economies
Sami Daklia and Akram Temimi

Institutional Efficiency, Monitoring Costs and the Investment Share of FDI
Joshua Aizenman and Mark M. Spiegel

Imperfect Labor Mobility and Unemployment in a Dual Economy
Gu Wei and Shigemi Yabuuchi

Foreign Aid under Quantitative Restrictions: Welfare Effects and International Factor Mobility
Trisha Bezman

Risky Habits: Risk Sharing, Habit Formation and International Consumption Correlations
Jeffrey C. Fuhrer and Michael W. Klein


Volume 14, Issue 5, November 2006

Contents

Self-protection? Antidumping Duties, Collusion and FDI
Ronald B. Davies and Benjamin H. Liebman

Quality of Governance and the Formation of Preferential Trade Agreements
Masahiro Endoh

Unbalanced Growth and the Sustainability of the Current Account Deficit
Luigi Bonatti

Speculative Attacks and Informational Structure: An Experimental Study
Camille Cornand

On the Credibility of Currency Boards
Switgard Feuerstein and Oliver Grimm

Cross-Country Relative Price Volatility: Effects of Market Structure
Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii

Technological Upgrading under Tariffs and Equivalent Quotas
Jiunn-Rong Chiou, Hong Hwang and Chao-cheng Mai

Trade Union Rights, Democracy and Exports: A Gravity Model Approach
David Kucera and Ritash Sarna

The Role of Information Disclosure and Uncertainty in the 1994/95 Mexican Peso Crisis: Empirical Evidence
Christina E. Bannier

Industrial Targeting and Non-shiftable Capital in the Harris-Todaro Model
Jai-Young Choi and Eden S. H. Yu

Multinational Production, Absorptive Capacity and Endogenous R&D Spillovers
Leo A. Grünfeld

Trade Liberalization and the Profitability of Mergers: A Global Analysis
Hassan Benchekroun and Amrita Ray Chaudhrui

The Production Possibility Frontier as a Maximum Value Function: Concavity and Non-increasing Returns to Scale
Ardeshir J. Dalal