We develop a model in which sectoral trade patterns depend on both the technology common to all sectors and the technologies specific to each sector. Changes in the common technology level affect sectoral trade patterns through their impact on intertemporal optimization behavior, while changes...

The paper studies the monetary mechanism of a three-country world where two large countries are engaged in floating exchange rates with each other, and a small country is pegged to one of these large countries. Three countries possess an endogenous wage determination process, so that the choice...

This paper studies the economic impact of regionalism under the realistic assumptions of constant tariffs and asymmetric bloc formation. As an extension of the Krugman framework, the impact is decomposed into several components, each of which has a clear economic implication. Economic...