Trade, Policy, and International Adjustments

Trade, Policy, and International Adjustments covers the theoretical issues, macroeconomics, and mathematical methods in the field of international economics. The book summarizes and illustrates the various contributions to the field of international economics. The text presents studies on the issues in international trade and commercial policies; voluntary export restrictions; application of a geometric technique to a multidimensional problem concerning the Stolper-Samuelson theorem; the symmetry theorem between tariffs and quotas in the context of a monetary economy under flexible exchange rates; and application of the Hopf bifurcation theory to the theory of international capital mobility.
Economists, teachers, and students of economics will find the book very insightful.

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Outline

Part I. Recent Issues in International Trade and Commercial Policies

1. Voluntary Export Restraints

2. "Trade" or "Aid"?

3. Strategic Tariff Policy in a Model of Trade in Intermediate and Final Products

4. Predatory Dumping as Signal Jamming

5. Multinational Corporations and Absolute Advantage: The Symmetric Case

Part II. The Pure Theory of International Trade

6. The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem, the Leamer Triangle, and the Produced Mobile Factor Structure

7. Variable Returns to Scale, Paradoxes, and Global Correspondences in the Theory of International Trade

8. International Factor Mobility and Immiserizing Growth under Variable Returns to Scale

9. Choice between Free Trade and Controlled Trade under Economies of Scale

Part III. Macroeconomic Issues

10. Exchange Rates, the Terms of Trade, and the Current Account

11. The Equivalence of Tariffs and Quotas under Flexible Exchange Rates in a Monetary Model

12. The Short-Run Price - Quantity Adjustments in a Simple Two-Sector World Model

Part IV. Mathematical Methods and International Trade Theory

13. Cyclical International Capital Flows

14. Factor Price Equalization

15. The Stability of Dynamic Processes with Instantaneous Adjustment and the Pure Theory of International Trade

Index

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