In Competition in Telecommunications, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence … of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political … deregulatory movement: the introduction of incentive regulation; one-way access; the special nature of competition in a industry …

, primarily because of the lack of explanatory models. In Geography and Trade he provides a stimulating synthesis of ideas in the …

In the early 1990s, trade and labor economists, noting the fall in wages for low-skilled workers relative to high …-skilled workers, began to debate the impact of trade on wages. This debate—which led to a sometimes heated exchange on the role of … trade versus the role of technological change in explaining wage movements—continues today, with the focus now shifting to …

The standard version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade treats the factors of production--land, labor … vary endogenously. Findlay extends the factor proportions theory of international trade to consider capital accumulation … issues as the conditions under which international trade equalizes the rate of interest; the effects of learning and …

As trade liberalization and the fragmentation of production processes promote greater international exchange of inputs …, economists must adjust their thinking on trade issues. Transport costs have plummeted, and the difficulties of communicating … trade theory can be modified to take into account the increased international mobility of inputs and productive factors. He …

industrial organization, international trade, and economic growth--this "new economic geography" has emerged as one of the most …