We study the topological properties of the multinetwork of commodity-specific trade relations among world countries over the 1992-2003 period, comparing them with those of the aggregate-trade network, known in the literature as the international-trade network (ITN). We show that link-weight distributions of commodity-specific networks are extremely heterogeneous and (quasi) log normality of agg...

The present paper integrates neoclassical offer curves and production theory, introducing utility maximization and trade levels into the comparative static factor proportions model. The paper analyzes production conditions that determine the Metzler paradox that a tariff could lower the tariff inclusive import price. The model provides a more complete link between neoclassical and factor propor...

Open Trade, Price Supports, and Regional Price Behavior in Mexican Maize Markets Frank Davenport, Doug Steigerwald & Stuart Sweeney To cite this article: Frank Davenport, Doug Steigerwald & Stuart Sweeney (2016) Open Trade, Price Supports, and Regional Price Behavior in Mexican Maize Markets, Economic Geography, 92:2, 201-225, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2015.1112731 To link to this article: http://d...

Energy consumption has already become a major challenge to the current Internet. Most researches aim at lowering energy consumption under certain fixed performance constraints. Since trade-offs exist between network performance and energy saving, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may desire to achieve different Traffic Engineering (TE) goals corresponding to changeable requirements. The major c...

If the objective of the Trade Ban is to “save elephants” then this assumes there are hard data to demonstrate first, that it is the trade itself which is the prime cause of the decline in elephant numbers in Africa and second, that manipulating the trade will indeed effect elephant mortality rates. These are contentious issues to say the least. What is required here are empirical data relating ...

This paper develops a two-good, two-country model with national open access renewable resources. We derive an appropriate analog of ‘‘factor proportions’’ for the renewable resource case and link it to trade patterns and to the likelihood of diversified production. The resource importer gains from trade. However, a diversified resource exporting country necessarily suffers a decline in steady s...

Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the increasing importance of MNE networks. These hypotheses are tested by employing a cross-section framework, which uses OECD input-output table data, and an analysis,...

We use the HOS model of international trade to find a link between trading costs and pattern of trade, not just its effect on volume of trade. We prove that higher trading costs in labor-abundant countries will restrict volume of world trade by working against factor endowment bias and conversely for the capital-abundant nation. Asymmetric trading cost between goods may have paradoxical output ...

22 In the recent debate over the impact of trade reform on factor markets, it has been argued 23 that trade liberalization will lead to an increase in labor-demand elasticities — thus placing 24 labor markets under increased pressure. Using Turkish plant-level data spanning the course 25 of a dramatic trade liberalization, we test this idea. However, we are unable to find any 26 empirical suppo...

According to the “smooth adjustment hypothesis”, the labour-market adjustment costs entailed by trade liberalisation are lower if trade expansion is intra-industry rather than interindustry in nature. In this paper, we study the link between trade and labour market changes in UK manufacturing industries during the 1980s. We use industry-level measures of unemployment duration and wage variabili...