De-industrialization and entrepreneurship under monopolistic competition
in Oxford Economic Papers
October 2015; p ublished online March 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Trade; Market Structure and Pricing. 5255 words.
This article offers a new mechanism to explain de-industrialization in response to a price increase of the manufactured good. In our trade model, one sector (agriculture) is perfectly...
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Endogenous transport prices and trade imbalances
in Journal of Economic Geography
May 2011; p ublished online February 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Transport; International Trade; Production and Organizations; Transportation Systems; Market Structure and Pricing. 8694 words.
According to economic theory, imbalances in trade flows affect transport prices, because (some) carriers have to return without cargo from the low-demand region to the high-demand region....
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Mobile Capital, Variable Elasticity of Substitution, and Trade Liberalization
in Journal of Economic Geography
March 2018; p ublished online August 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Market Structure and Pricing; International Trade; International Factor Movements and International Business; Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics. 11477 words.
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This article investigates the impact of trade liberalization on trade patterns, firm markups, and firm locations in a two-factor monopolistic...
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Strategic licensing, exports, FDI, and host country welfare
in Oxford Economic Papers
January 2010; p ublished online June 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Trade; International Factor Movements and International Business; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance; Market Structure and Pricing. 7781 words.
This paper analyses the preference of a foreign firm over serving a host country market and its impact on the host country welfare. We show that the foreign firm can choose licensing its...
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Trade Costs and Deviations from the Law of One Price
in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
July 2010; p ublished online July 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Trade; Single Equation Models; Single Variables; Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance; Market Structure and Pricing. 8495 words.
The link between relative prices across countries and trade costs requires a theoretical foundation that is absent in the literature to date. Empirical tests on the law of one price are...
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Trade liberalization, technology transfer, and endogenous R&D
in Oxford Economic Papers
October 2016; p ublished online July 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Market Structure and Pricing; International Trade. 5610 words.
It is generally believed that trade liberalization impedes technology transfers from abroad. By considering R&D behaviour of the foreign firm, this paper shows contrarily that trade...
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