We examine the consequences of opening to international trade for a developing economy with open urban unemployment and rural-urban migration, where the urban sector is monopolistically competitive. We show that there exists a threshold level of urbanization prior to which increases in product...

The authors show how the transformation loci in the specific factors model (capital specificity) and the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model (capital mobility) can be rigorously derived and easily compared by using geometric techniques on the basis of Savosnick geometry. The approach shows directly...

We provide current evidence to show that the numbers of sponsored depositary receipts created and cross-listed have increased by more than two-fold over the last decade and a substantial proportion of this growth came from the emerging and developing economies. We argue that the needs of this...

We examine the consequences of opening to international trade for a developing economy with open urban unemployment and rural-urban migration, where the urban sector is monopolistically competitive. We show that there exists a threshold level of urbanization prior to which increases in product...

We consider the potential influence of contributions from interest groups to political rivals in the voting behavior of US legislators on international trade policy issues. Our application addresses the determinants of the Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China decision, and focuses...