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Foreign direct investment and the single market

Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-05)

This paper extends the theory of multinational corporations, identifying three distinct influences of internal trade liberalisation by a group of countries on the level and pattern of inward foreign direct investment (FDI). ...
Growth, specialization, and trade liberalization

Devereux, Michael B. (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1990)

This paper examines a two-way interaction between trade liberalization and economic growth. Through dynamic increasing returns to specialization, international trade can increase world growth rates. But growth, through ...
International trade : Commercial policy

Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-10)

Following a brief historical introduction and a discussion of different types of commercial policy, this paper reviews the arguments for and against trade protection. In the bench-mark case of a competitive, small, open ...
Pitfalls in the theory of international trade policy : concertina reform of tariffs, and subsidies to high-technology industries

Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-09-24)

This paper explores the links between international trade theory and the practice of trade and industrial policy in open economies, with special attention to three areas where theoretical lessons have been misunderstood ...
Simultaneous reform of tariffs and quotas

Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-02-23)

This paper presents a general result for simultaneous reform of tariffs and quotas in a small open economy, where some of the quota rents do not accrue to domestic residents. Absent highly perverse income effects, welfare ...
Trade costs and foreign direct investment

Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-08)

This paper reviews the theory of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on an apparent con‡ict between theory and recent trends in the globalized world. The bulk of FDI is horizontal rather than vertical, but horizontal ...
Trade policy and natural resource use : the case for a quantitative restriction

Ferreira, S. (Susana) (Springer, 2007)

This paper presents a simple way for countries to reap the benefits of trade liberalization without exacerbating problems of overexploitation of natural resources. In the context of a Ricardo–Viner dynamic trade model, it ...
Trade policy formation when geography matters for specialisation

Thede, Susanna (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-11)

In this paper, trade policy formation is incorporated into an economic geography model. The political setup used is a modified version of that introduced by Grossman and Helpman (1994) in which policy makers may be influenced ...