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Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Krugman, Paul - The MIT Press

Market Structure and Foreign Trade presents a coherent theory of trade in the presence of market structures other than perfect competition. The theory it develops explains trade patterns, especially of industrial countries, and provides an integration between trade and the role of multinational...

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International Trade and Trade Policy

Helpman, Elhanan (contributor); Razin, Assaf (contributor) - The MIT Press

including empirical studies of the welfare effects of quality - upgrading voluntary export restrictions and import quotas …

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Technology and Trade

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We review the literature on the links between technology and international trade. The older literature assumed exogenous technologies and focused on their effects on the structure of foreign trade and on welfare. Recently much of the effort has been on explaining technological change. As a...

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International R&D Spillovers

Coe, David T; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized this link and have also identified a number of channels through which a country's R&D affects total factor productivity of its trade partners....

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Trade, FDI and the Organization of Firms

Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better understand the changes in trade and investment patterns, and the reorganization of production across national borders. Although traditional trade theory has much to offer in explaining parts of this puzzle, other...

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Global Sourcing

Antràs, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...

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Export versus FDI

Helpman, Elhanan; Melitz, Marc J; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level … heterogeneity is an important determinant of relative export and FDI flows. We use the model to derive testable empirical … predictions on the relative aggregate export and FDI sales in a given country for a given sector based both on relative costs and …

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The Structure of Foreign Trade

Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

During the last two decades new research has greatly advanced our understanding of the structure of world trade. This article reviews the empirical literature that grew out of this effort. I emphasize the interplay between theory and empirical research that was an important driving force behind...

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