This paper explores the effects of transport costs, tariffs, and foreign wage rates on the domestic economy in the presence of reverse imports, with special emphasis on inter-firm cost asymmetry in an international oligopoly model. To serve the domestic market, a foreign firm produces in the...

Antidumping (AD) petitions are often withdrawn in favour of voluntary export restraints (VERs) and price undertakings. This paper compares these policy options in the presence of protection-jumping foreign direct investment (FDI), with special emphasis on rivalry between foreign firms. We show...

This paper incorporates externalities generated by human capital into the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson framework to examine the patterns of international trade and migration. Individuals endowed with different levels of human capital choose to become either unskilled or skilled workers. National...

By using duality theory, this paper reexamines the validity of the Stolper-Samuelson and Rybczynski theorems with intra- and/or interindustrial externalities. In particular, the author states conditions for the validity of both theorems in terms of the patterns of production externalities and...

We consider trade policies intended to affect the production of a foreign monopolist that generates negative externalities. We derive the optimal tariff and optimal import quota and examine which policy measure should be used to maximize domestic welfare. We find that if the domestic government...