Contents of RIE: Volume 19


Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2011


Contents

Market Size and Firm Location in a Service Industry
Hiroshi Kurata, Takao Ohkawa and Makoto Okamura

The Structure of the American Economy
Eric O’N. Fisher and Kathryn G. Marshall

Why are Trade Agreements Regional?
Ben Zissimos

Special section: 20 Years of Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: Money, Banking and Financial Markets

Introduction
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Roman Matousek

Growth and Crisis in Transition: A Comparative Perspective
Fabrizio Coricelli and Mathilde Maurel

Inflation in the New EU Member States
Alexander Mihailov, Fabio Rumler and Johann Scharler

Fractional Integration of Nominal Exchange Rates: Evidence from CEECs in the light of EMU Enlargement
Carlos P. Barros, Luis Gil-Alana and Roman Matousek

From Peg to Float: Exchange Market Pressure and Monetary Policy in the Czech Republic

David M. Kemme and Gennady Lyakir

The Role of Banks in Monetary Policy Transmission: Empirical Evidence from Russia
Tuuli Juurikkala, Alexei Karas and Laura Solanko

Do Financial Systems Converge?
Angelos A. Antzoulatos, Ekaterini Panopoulou and Chris Tsoumas

Global Integration of Central and Eastern European Financial Markets: The Role of Economic Sentiments
Ansgar Belke, Joscha Beckmann and Michael Kühl

Stock Market Integration between three CEECs, Russia and the UK
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Nicola Spagnolo

Foreign News and Spillovers in Emerging European Stock Markets
Jan Hanousek and Evžen Kočenda

EU Banks Rating Assignments: Is There Heterogeneity Between New And Old Member Countries?
Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Roman Matousek and Chris Stewart


Volume 19, Issue 2, May 2011


Contents

A Two-Country Game of Competition Policies
Makoto Yano and Takakazu Honryo

Uncovered Interest parity: Cross-Sectional Evidence
Byung-Joo Lee

International Bias and the Sector Bias: New Empirical Evidence
Daniel Horgos

Creating Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Is There a Role for Financial Incentives?
Holger Görg, Aoifef Hanley and Eric Strobl

Tariff, Growth and Welfare
Shun-Fa Lee

The Prospect of Migration, Sticky Wages, and “Educated Unemployment”
Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan

Special Section
Guest Editor: Larry Qiu

Consumer Heterogeneity, Free Trade, and the Welfare Impact of Income Redistribution
Jiandong Ju

Commercial Policy and Foreign Ownership
Jota Ishikawa,             Yoichi Sugita and Laixun Zhao

Division of Labor and Endogenous Comparative Advantage: A Smith-Ricardian Model of International Trade
Zhihao Yu

International R&D Networks
Lei Zu, Baomin Dong, Xin Zhao and Jin Zhang

Export Variety, Revenue, and Productivity in China
Bo Chen

Bilateral trade agreements and the feasibility of multilateral free trade
Kamal Saggi and Halis Murat Yildiz

Is China’s Anti-dumping More Retaliatory than that of the US?
Xiaohua Bao and Larry D. Qiu

Time Preference and Trade Imbalance
Toru Kikuchiand Koichi Hamada

Forming Efficient Free Trade Networks: A Sequential Mechanism
Jin Zhang, Licun Xue and Xiaopeng Yin


Volume 19, Issue 3, August 2011


Contents

One Money, One Market: A Revised Benchmark
Theo S. Eicher and Christian Henn

Analyzing the System of Preferential Tariffs for Least Developed Countries
Alan Green and Harry de Gorter

Differentiated Products, Vertical Related Markets and Optimal Export Policy
Stephen Jui-Hsien Chou

Monopolistic Competition and North-South Trade
Reza Oladi and John Gilbert

Effects of a Free Trade Agreement on the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices
Arnoldo López Marmolejo

On Gravity, Specialization and Intra-industry Trade
E. Young Song

Sudden Flight and True Sudden Stops
Alexander D. Rothenberg and Francis E. Warnock

Trade Policy and Antitrust: Do Consumers Matter to Legislators?
Robert M. Feinberg, Thomas A. Husted and Kara M. Reynolds

Does Outsourcing Always Benefit Skilled Labor?
Kuang-Chung Hsu

Offshore Outsourcing and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data Disaggregated by Tasks
Banri Ito, Eiichi Tomiura and Ryuhei Wakasugi

Environmental Regulation: An Incentive for Foreign Direct Investment
Bouwe R. Dijkstra, Anuj Joshua Mathew and Arijit Mukherjee

Intra-Industry Trade Liberalization: Why Skilled Workers are More Likely to Support Free Trade
Eugene Beaulieu, Michael Benarroch and James D. Gaisford

Who trades with Whom? Exploring the Links Between Firms’ International Activities, Skills and Wages

Francesco Serti, Chiara Tomasi, Antonello Zanfei

Volume 19, Issue 4, September 2011

 


Contents

Product market integration, rents and wage inequality
Torben M. Andersen

Measuring Vertical Specialization:  the Case of China
Judith M. Dean, Kwok-Chiu Fung and Zhi Wang

Quality of Labour Markets in a Developing Country
Fumio Dei

Trade Intermediation and the Organization of Exporters
Gabriel Felbermayr and Benjamin Jung

Exchange Rate Policy and Sovereign Spreads in Emerging Market Economies
Inci Gumus

Welfare Effects of Tariff Reduction Formulas
Jan Guldager Jørgensen and Philipp J.H. Schröder

Sectoral Capital-Labor Ratios and Total Factor Productivity: Evidence From Asia
Vikas Kakkar and Isabel K.M. Yan

Software Provision and the Impact of Market Integration
Kazumichi Iwasa and Toru Kikuchi

Paths of Development and Wage Variations
Kozo Kiyota

A New Test of the Real Interest Rate Parity Hypothesis: Bounds Approach and Structural Breaks
George Bagdatoglou and Alexandros Kontonikas

Multinational Firms and Labor Market Pooling
Mario Larch and Wolfgang Lechthaler

The Common Component in Forward Premiums: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific Region
Jun Nagayasu

The Dark Side of the Generalized System of Preferences
Bernhard Herz and Marco Wagner

International Outsourcing and Unemployment in a Minimum-Wage Economy
Ting Zhang

 

Book Reviews
Kimberly Clausing

Kent Jones
Volume 19, Issue 5, November 2011

Contents

Structural Breaks and the Equilibrium Chinese Yuan/US Dollar Real Exchange Rate: A PEER Approach
Kefei You and Nicholas Sarantis

Making Sense of Safeguards
James C Hartigan

Impacts of Tariffs on Productivity
Tuan Anh Luong

FDI Policy, Greenfield Investment and Cross-border Mergers
Larry D. Qiu and Shengzu Wang

Another Look at the Underlying Cause of the End of the Bretton Woods System: International Price Differences Perspective
Yukio fukumoto

Monetary Integration in East Asia: Evidence from Real Effective Exchange Rates
Wei Sun and Gerald Simons

The Byrd Amendment as Facilitating a Tacit International Business Collusion
Yoshitomo Ogawa and Yoshiyasu Ono

The Vulnerability of Asean+3 Countries to International Financial Crises
Celine Gimet

The Welfare Synergy of Bundling International Environmental Agreements with International Trade Treaties
Bidisha Lahiri

The Immigration Policy Puzzle
Paolo E. Giordani and Michele Ruta

Minimum Quality Standards and International Trade
Kenneth Baltzer

How Elastic is East Asian Demand for Consumption Goods?
Willem Thorbecke

European integration and inequality among countries: a lifecycle income analysis
José M. Pastor and Lorenzo Serrano

Trade Liberalization and Technology Diffusion
Kurt A. Hafner

Book Review
The Gravity Model in International Trade. Advances and Applications
Edited by Peter A.G. Van Bergeijk and Steven Brakman
Sucharita Ghosh