Walsh, Patrick P.(Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1991-11)
This paper gives a general framework for analyzing a trade divergence that runs
across both the New International trade theory and the traditional analysis of export policy. The source of the trade divergence, the motive ...
Thom, Rodney(University College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1999-01)
This paper presents an analysis of the growth and structure of EU-CEE intra-industry trade since the latter commenced their economic transition in the late 1980's. Section 2 outlines the economic rationale for intra-industry ...
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 conict between theory and recent trends in the globalized world. The bulk of FDI is horizontal rather than vertical, but
horizontal ...
This paper introduces the concepts of direct and indirect factor trade utility functions and uses them to derive Marshallian and Hicksian factor content functions, which express the quantities of factors embodied in ...
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 ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-12-11)
Almost twenty-five years after the appearance of Dixit and Stiglitz’s paper on
monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity, I try to take stock of the progres which has been made in applying their approach to ...
Cole, Matthew T.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-10-23)
There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction
of firm heterogeneity into trade models. However, these models tend to rely heavily
on symmetry assumptions and assume melting iceberg ...
The key result of the so-called “New Trade Theory” is that countries gain from
falling trade costs by an increase in the number of varieties available to consumers.
Though the number of varieties in a given country rises, ...