Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction / Bjarne S. Jensen and Kar-yiu Wong -- 2. Endogenous Growth and International Trade: A Survey / Ngo Van Long and Kar-yiu Wong -- Part II. Dynamics of Basic Trade Models -- 3. General...

PTAs are generally negotiated without any tariff concessions or transfers to non-member countries. Can such a PTA benefit the neighbors' welfare? In a two-good competitive equilibrium model in the absence of an entrepôt, a PTA without concessions to the outside will hurt the outsider's welfare...

We develop a model of international trade with increasing returns to scale by taking into account the possibility of cooperation among agents in an egalitarian economy. It is shown that each country gains from trade in a trading world in which there are arbitrary numbers of...

In two-sector infinite-horizon trade models with factor–price-equalization, convergence of aggregate capital-labor ratios and incomes does not occur because the Euler equations imply equal growth rate of consumption in all economies. In a two-country dynamic specific factors model, we show...