This paper examines the impact in Morocco of its pending free trade agreement with the US in a specific factors model with unemployment and energy imports. Projected price scenarios across eight industries lead to adjustments in outputs, energy imports, rural wages, urban wages, and the...

Textile and apparel industries in the US face import competition that promises to increase under the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The present paper utilizes a specific factors model of production and trade to predict the potential impact of FTAA on the textile and apparel industries in North...

This paper discusses on the outcome of a large urban renewal planning project in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, a US developing region. The proposed outcome to increase demand for medical services by extending Medicaid enrolment was arrived at through a sustainable development framework, which...

The study uses IMPLAN modeling software to estimate economic contribution of recent “downward expansion” of University of Houston-Victoria (UHV). According to the study, the economic impact of UHV to the economy of Victoria County and Texas region is $92 million.  UHV is one of the largest...

This paper investigates the effect of dollar depreciation on the US tourism trade balance. Export revenue and import spending functions are estimated separately with structural vector autoregressive methods to better capture dynamic adjustments to exchange rate shocks. Quarterly data cover the...

This paper develops a competitive model of trade between three countries with constant cost production and identical utility functions. Trade depends on country size and productivity, and may be limited to two of the countries. Regional trade is observed if they happen to be closer together. The...

This paper develops the intertemporal equilibrium of a small open economy with a nonrenewable resource intensive export and a labor intensive import. Optimal depletion implies the resource price rises at the rate of the capital return. Capital grows with investment and labor at a steady rate,...

A factor tariff raises the cost of production and reduces output in a small open neoclassical economy. In the present model the tariff also raises the price of the import competing factor, increasing its quantity supplied. Factor substitution, factor shares, and the price elasticity of factor...

A tariff on imported energy in a small open economy alters production, redistributes income, and generates tariff revenue. The present paper includes tariff revenue in a general equilibrium economy producing two traded goods with imported energy and domestic capital and labor. An energy tariff...