It has recently been suggested by several authors that a Cournot-Nash free-trade equilibrium might leave each country worse off than under autarky, in apparent contradiction of earlier findings. In the present note it is shown that the suggestion is typically based on self-contradictory...

It is well known that perfectly competitive free trade is potentially beneficial for all countries if all goods are both rivalrous and excludable in consumption (“private goods”) and recently (2011) the proposition has been modified to accommodate non-rivalrous and non-excludable goods...

We consider two dynamic games of foreign aid. <link rid="ss3">Model 1</link> deals with the case where donor countries continually feel the warm glow from the act of giving. <link rid="ss32">Model 2</link> postulates that donors will stop giving aid when a target level of development is reached. In <link rid="ss3">Model 1</link>, there are multiple equilibria that...

In an earlier paper the authors clarified the relationship between the stability of long--run equilibrium and the possibility of paradoxical comparative statics in the Lerner--Samuelson two--by--two model of production with factor--market distortions (see "Review of International Economics" 9...

Conditions sufficient for factor price equalization within any non-trivial subset of trading countries are provided. The conditions are that (a) the factor endowment ratios of countries in the subset are all bounded by the factors-in-use ratios in an equilibrium of the hypothetical world economy...

The Torrens-Ricardo Principle of Comparative Advantage rests on the special assumptions that, both in autarky and under free trade, all countries can produce all commodities and that, in autarkic equilibrium, each country consumes all producible commodities, at least incipiently. We reformulate...