Empirical International TradE

Edited by Daniel M. Bernhofen, American University, Washington, DC, US

‘Empirical International Trade gathers a wealth of scholarly essays by learned economists and mathematics, evaluating the latest theories and discoveries in the economic venue of international trade. . . Extensive tables, calculations, and formulas supplement the expert-level resource of technical discussion and theory, highly recommended for college and graduate school economics libraries.’

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Daniel M. BernhofenPART IEMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE HECKSCHER-OHLIN MODEL1. Wassily Leontief (1953), ‘Domestic Production and Foreign Trade; The American Capital Position Re-Examined’2. Edward E. Leamer (1980), ‘The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered’3. Harry P. Bowen, Edward E. Leamer and Leo Sveikauskas (1987), ‘Multicountry, Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory’4. Daniel Trefler (1993), ‘International Factor Price Differences: Leontief was Right!’5. Daniel Trefler (1995), ‘The Case of the Missing Trade and Other Mysteries’6. Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein (2001), ‘An Account of Global Factor Trade’7. Peter K. Schott (2003), ‘One Size Fits All? Heckscher-Ohlin Specification in Global Production’8. James Harrigan (1997), ‘Technology, Factor Supplies, and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model’9. John Romalis (2004), ‘Factor Proportions and the Structure of Commodity Trade’PART IITESTING COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND THE GAINS FROM TRADE 10. Daniel M. Bernhofen and John C. Brown (2004), ‘A Direct Test of the Theory of Comparative Advantage: The Case of Japan’11. Daniel M. Bernhofen and John C. Brown (2005), ‘An Empirical Assessment of the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan’PART IIIMONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION AND THE GAINS FROM PRODUCT VARIETY 12. Elhanan Helpman (1987), ‘Imperfect Competition and International Trade: Evidence from Fourteen Industrial Countries’13. David Hummels and James Levinsohn (1995), ‘Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence’14. Peter Debaere (2005), ‘Monopolistic Competition and Trade, Revisited: Testing the Model Without Testing for Gravity’15. Christian Broda and David E. Weinstein (2006), ‘Globalization and the Gains from Variety’PART IVGRAVITY, BORDERS AND THE GROWTH OF WORLD TRADE 16. John McCallum (1995), ‘National Borders Matter: Canada-U.S. Regional Trade Patterns’17. James E. Anderson and Eric van Wincoop (2003), ‘Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle’18. Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum (2002), ‘Technology, Geography, and Trade’19. Scott L. Baier and Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (2001), ‘The Growth of World Trade: Tariffs, Transport Costs, and Income Similarity’20. Kei-Mu Yi (2003), ‘Can Vertical Specialization Explain the Growth of World Trade?’PART VTHE EMPIRES OF FIRM AND PLAN TRADE 21. Andrew B. Bernard and J. Bradford Jensen (1995), ‘Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing: 1976–1987’22. Sofronis K. Clerides, Saul Lach and James R. Tybout (1998), ‘Is Learning by Exporting Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and Morocco’23. Andrew B. Bernard and J. Bradford Jensen (1999), ‘Exceptional Exporter Performance: Cause, Effect, or Both?’PART VITRADE, NETWORKS AND CONTRACTS 24. James E. Rauch (1999), ‘Networks Versus Markets in International Trade’25. James E. Rauch and Vitor Trindade (2002), ‘Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade’26. James E. Anderson and Douglas Marcouiller (2002), ‘Insecurity and the Pattern of Trade: An Empirical Investigation’27. Nathan Nunn (2007), ‘Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts, and the Pattern of Trade’Name Index