Positive and Normative Analysis in International Economics

1. Introduction
Murray C. Kemp, Hironobu Nakagawa, Tatsuya Uchida

Part I. Positive and Normative Analysis in International Economics

2. Normative Trade Theory
Murray C. Kemp

3. The Moral Scientific Nature of Stolper–Samuelson’s Proposal to ‘Bribe’ for Free Trade
Hiroshi Ohta

4. Innovations and International Trade
Michihiro Ohyama

5. Comparative Cost and Factor Endowments: Ricardo and Ohlin
Bjarne S. Jensen

6. Social Welfare and Pareto Improvement
Martin C. McGuire

Part II. Perspectives in the Theory of International Trade

7. The Welfare Effect of International Cost Harmonization
Anthony Creane, Kaz Miyagiwa

8. Capacity Constraint, Export Subsidies and World Recession
Hong Hwang, Chao-Cheng Mai, Ya-Po Yang

9. Subcontracting or Exporting with Flexible Manufacturing
Wen-Jung Liang, Chao-Cheng Mai

10. Inward FDI and the Size of the Market: Hosting MNCs or Promoting Domestic Companies?
Akinori Tomohara

11. Unionization and the Environment: A General Equilibrium Approach
Chi-Chur Chao, Eden S. H. Yu

Part III. Empirical Issues in International Economics

12. How Regional Blocs Affect Excluded Countries: The Price Effects of MERCOSUR
Won Chang, L. Alan Winters

13. Global Imbalances and Exchange Rates: Welfare and Policy Implications
Hironobu Nakagawa

14. Regulation, Quality Adjustment, and Relative Price Changes: The Case of the Yen Appreciation Shock of 1985
Kaku Furuya

15. Continued Openness and Reforms for Agriculture in Japan
Hidetaka Kawano

Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, International Economics, Asian Economics, Econometrics, Trade