Contemporary and emerging issues in trade theory and policy [electronic resource] / edited by Sugata Marjit, Eden S.H. Yu.

Something new for something old : reflections on a model with three factors and two goods / Stephen T. Easton -- On commodity prices and factor rewards : a close look at sign patterns / Tapan Mitra -- National security and international trade : a simple general equilibrium model / Ronald Findlay, Mohammad Amin -- Comparative statics in a two-factor multi-commodity model without factor price equalization / Siu-kee Wong -- Distortions in the two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model / Eric W. Bond, Robert A. Driskill -- Specific factor models and dynamics in international trade / Yunfang Hu, Kazuo Nishimura, Koji Shimomura -- Skill formation and income distribution in a three class small developing economy / Sugata Marjit -- Foreign capital and skilled-unskilled wage inequality in a developing economy with non-traded goods / Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Shigemi Yabuuchi -- Do factor endowments matter for north-north trade? / Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein -- Trade, wage inequality and the vent for surplus / Brati Sankar Chakraborty, Abhirup Sarkar -- Informed buyers and trade sanction against child labour : does it work? / Rajat Acharyya -- Public inputs, urban development, and welfare in a developing economy / Chi-Chur Chao, Jean-Pierre Laffargue, Eden S.H. Yu -- Contemporary and emerging issues in trade theory and policy / Sugata Marjit, Eden S.H. Yu -- Moving people or jobs? A new perspective on immigration and international outsourcing / Hamid Beladi, Avik Chakrabarti -- Commodity demand, capital mobility, and international trade : a ricardian approach / Morihiro Yomogida -- International outsourcing under monopolistic competition : winners and losers / Viet Do, Ngo Van Long -- The effect of new environment on foreign direct investment in an oligopolistic Heckscher-Ohlin model / Sajal Lahiri, Yoshiyasu Ono -- International trade agreements / Wilfred J. Ethier -- Competition policy as a substitute for tariff policy / Rika Takahashi, Jin Kenzaki, Makoto Yano -- Free trade between large and small : what's in it for the large country? What's in it for the small? / Carsten Kowalczyk -- Fragmented trade and the Hubspokes game strategic trade under the WTO / An-Chi Tung, Henry Wan -- A simple vertical competition model: structure and performance / Roy J. Ruffin -- Globalization, trade in middle products, and relative prices / Ulrich Kohli -- Fixed transport costs and international trade / Didier Laussel, Raymond Riezman.

This is a new volume in the Frontiers in Economics & Globalization series. This book deals with a wide-range of trade and development issues in terms of well-known general equilibrium structure. This volume shows how neo-classical models of trade theory can be used to highlight many challenging contemporary global problems. This book is a new volume in the Frontiers in Economics & Globalization series. It deals with a wide-range of trade and development issues. It focuses on neo-classical models of trade theory to highlight the challenges of global trade problems.