As a developing nation in the process of undergoing successful and relatively equitable development, Vietnam is recognized as an example of the potential opportunities afforded by a successful trade driven development strategy. Improved understanding of the linkages between trade, growth, and...

Future trends of China's agricultural trade have been a subject of considerable debate among agricultural economists. One particular problem is that China may be a large country relative to some world agricultural markets, yet virtually all previous studies assumed a perfectly competitive world...

The US and the EU use outward processing arrangements to shift labor intensive apparel operations to neighboring countries who have significantly lower labor costs, to promote demand for their capital-intensive textiles, and to provide economic assistance to the developing countries. They...

Macroeconomic events and policies strongly influence agricultural sector outcomes. Chapters synthesized here delineate both feed-forward and feedback linkages between agriculture and the macroeconomy, examining how relationships change as countries develop and undergo structural transformation....

A dynamic, game theoretic model with switching costs provides better understanding of motives that keep export subsidies a part of exporters' agricultural policies. Switching costs include factors, such as transactions costs and political considerations, that affect an importer's purchasing...

This dissertation develops a cost benefit framework that explains firms' international entry decisions, accounting for consumer demand for differentiated products, competitors' strategies and distributors' market power. It is used to explain the economics of observed entry patterns of Spanish...

Unilateral trade reforms and establishment of Mercosur led to increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) into Argentina. These inflows financed acquisition of new capital and/or renovation of existing plants, resulting in significant expansion in Argentina's capital stock and more rapid economic...