C ontents of RIE: Volume 15


Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2007


Contents

Convergence to Purchasing Power Parity at the Commencement of the Euro
Claude Lopez and David H. Papell

Product Market Integration and Union Collision
Chiara Strozzi

Simultaneous Reform of Tariffs and Quotas
J. Peter Neary

Trade, Wages and Specific Factors
Indro Dasgupta and Thomas Osang

The Home Market Effect in Models with Multinational Enterprises
Mario Larch

Trade, Wage Gaps and Specific Human Capital Accumulation
Ngo Van Long, Raymond Riezman and Antoine Soubeyran

Analyzing Modes of Foreign Entry: Greenfield Investment versus Acquisition
Thomas Müller

The Effects of Technology Changes on Sectoral Trade Patterns
Munehisa Kasuya and Toshihiro Okada

Trademark Protection or Protectionism?
Eugenia Baroncelli, Ekaterina Krivonos and Marcelo Olarreaga

Foreign Direct Investment Outflows and Business-Cycle Fluctuations
Miao Wang and M. C. Sunny Wong

Does Productivity Growth Appreciate the Real Exchange Rate?
Jaewoo Lee and Man-Keung Tang

International Outsourcing, Technological Change and Wage Inequality
Alexander Hijzen

Book Review
Kym Anderson


Volume 15, Issue 2, May 2007


Contents

International Technology Transfer: Who Gains and Who Loses?
Roy J. Ruffin and Ronald W. Jones

International Productivity Differences, Infrastructure and Comparative Advantage
Stephen R. Yeaple and Stephen S. Golub

Trade and Real Wages: A Macroeconomic Model
Ravi Batra and Hamid Beladi

Exchange Rates, Expectations and Monetary Policy: A NOEM Perspective
Christian Pierdzioch and Georg Stadtmann

Trade, Human Capital and Technology Spillovers: An Industry Level Analysis
Yanling Wang

International Trade with a Public Intermediate Good and the Gains from Trade
Nobuhito Suga and Makoto Tawada

Welfare Reducing Domestic Cost Reduction
Arijit Mukherjee and Uday Bhanu Sinha

The Effect of EMU on Tourism
Salvador Gil-Pareja, Rafael Llorca-Vivero and Jose Antonio Martinez-Serrano

Cartel Stability and Economic Integration
Philipp J. H. Schröder

International Trade, Technology and the Wage Gap: Evidence from Granger Causality Tests
Sucharita Ghosh and Steven Yamarik

National Border Effects: Location, Not Nationality Matters
Carol L. Evans

Government Bonds in Domestic and Foreign Currency: The Role of Institutional and Macroeconomic Factors
Stijn Claessens, Daniela Klingebiel and Sergio L. Schmukler

International Trade, Hedging and the Demand for Forward Contracts
Jens Eisenschmidt and Klaus Wälde

The S-Curve Dynamics of US Bilateral Trade
Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Artatrana Ratha


Volume 15, Issue 3, August 2007


Contents

Pareto Optimal Delegation in Customs Unions
Marke Melatos and Alan D. Woodland

Domestic Labor markets and Foreign Direct Investment
Jan I. Haaland and Ian Wooton

A Theory of Favoritism in an International Oligopoly
Ngo Van Long

A Note on Production Efficiency in Oligopolistic Trade Models
Arghya Ghosh

Optimal Monetary Policy with Vertical Production and Trade
Kang Shi and Juanyi Xu

Exchange Rate Pass-through Effects and Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies: What is the Relationship?
Javier Reyes

Optimal Tariffs under a Revenue Constraint
Tatsuo Hatta and Yoshitomo Ogawa

Pricing to Firm: An Analysis of Firm- and Product-Level Import Prices
László Halpern and Miklós Koren

Dynamic Games of Environmental Policy in a Global Economy: Taxes versus Quotas
Akihito Yanase

Productivity Trends and the Sterling Real Exchange Rate
Frank Engels, Panagiotis Th. Konstantinou and Jens Søndergaard


Volume 15, Issue 4, September 2007

 


Contents

Productive Capacity, Product Varieties and the Elasticities Approach to the Trade Balance
Joseph E. Gagnon

Is Trade Good for Your Health?
Ann L. Owen and Stephen Wu

The Pattern of Exchange Rate Effects on Chinese Prices: 1980-2002
Xuxin Yu

Switching Between Expectation Processes in the Foreign Exchange Market: A Probabilistic Approach Using Survey Data
Georges Prat and Remzi Uctum

Balance Sheet Effects, Crises and Growth
Rashmi Shankar

Global Resources and Eco-labels: A Neutrality Result
Peter E. Robertson

International Consumption Patterns among High-income Countries: Evidence from the OECD Data
István Kónya and Hiroshi Ohashi

Foreign Market Entry Strategies under Asymmetric Information
Alberto Nastasi and Pierfrancesco Reverberi

The Zero-Root Property: Permanent vs. Temporary Terms of Trade Shocks
Olivier Cardi

The Optimal Degree of Exchange Rate Flexibility: A Target Zone Approach
Jesús Rodríguez López and Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal

Optimal Trade Policies and Production Technology in Vertically Related Markets
Hong Hwang, Yan-Shu Lin and Ya-Po Yang


Volume 15, Issue 5, November 2007

Contents

Exchange Rate Effects on China’s Trade
Jaime Marquez and John Schindler

Tax Effects on the Real Exchange Rate
Stacie Beck

Immigration Policy, Self-Selection and the Quality of Immigrants
Giorgio Bellettini and Carlotta Berti Ceroni

Trade Policies as Signals of Private Political Pressure
Hisashi Sawaki

US Exports of Knowledge-Intensive Services and Importing Country Characteristics
Catherine Yap Co

Sustaining Collusion under Economic Integration
Luca Colombo and Paola Labrecciosa

A Model of Endogenous Nontradability and its Implications for the Current Account
Paul Bergin

Pitfalls in private and social incentives for vertical cross border integration and disintegration
Gianpaolo Rossini

Trade Gains and Public Goods
Koji Shimomura

International R&D Spillovers: Trade, FDI, and Information Technology as Spillover Channels
Lei Zhu and Bang Nam Jeon

On Functionally Distributed Quotas
John Gilbert

Current Account Adjustment and Capital Flows
Guy Debelle and Gabriele Galati

Neoclassical growth, Manufacturing Agglomeration and Terms of Trade
Dieter M. Urban

Sharecroppers or Shrewd Capitalists?  Projections of the U.S. Current Account, International Income Flows, and Net International Debt
John Kitchen


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