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Trade: An Overview 10 Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model 24 Specific Factors and Income Distribution 50 Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model 80 The Standard Trade Model 111 External Economies of Scale and the International Location of Production 137 Firms in the Global Economy: Export Decisions, Outsourcing, and Multinational Enterprises 155 Part International Trade Policy 192 The Instruments of Trade Policy 192 10 The Political Economy of Trade Policy 219 11 Trade Policy in Developing Countries 256 12 Controversies in Trade Policy 271 Part Exchange Rates and Open-Economy Macroeconomics 293 13 National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments 293 14 Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach 320 15 Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates 354 16 Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 384 17 Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run 421 18 Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention 463 Part International Macroeconomic Policy 504 19 International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview 504 20 Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience 557 21 Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis 586 22 Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform 619 vii viii Brief Contents Mathematical Postscripts Postscript to Chapter 5: The Factor Proportions Model 661 Postscript to Chapter 6: The Trading World Economy 665 Postscript to Chapter 8: The Monopolistic Competition Model 673 Postscript to Chapter 21: Risk Aversion and International Portfolio Diversification 675 Credits 683 Index 685 Contents Preface xxi Introduction What Is International Economics About? The Gains from Trade The Pattern of Trade How Much Trade? Balance of Payments Exchange Rate Determination International Policy Coordination The International Capital Market International Economics: Trade and Money Part International Trade Theory World Trade: An Overview 10 10 Who Trades with Whom? 10 Size Matters: The Gravity Model 11 Using the Gravity Model: Looking for Anomalies 13 Impediments to Trade: Distance, Barriers, and Borders 14 The Changing Pattern of World Trade 16 Has the World Gotten Smaller? 16 What Do We Trade? 17 Service Outsourcing 19 Do Old Rules Still Apply? 21 Summary 21 Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model 24 The Concept of Comparative Advantage 25 A One-Factor Economy 26 Production Possibilities 27 Relative Prices and Supply 28 Trade in a One-Factor World 29 Determining the Relative Price After Trade 30 BOX: Comparative Advantage in Practice: The Case of Babe Ruth 33 The Gains from Trade 34 A Note on Relative Wages 35 BOX: The Losses from Nontrade 36 Misconceptions About Comparative Advantage 37 Productivity and Competitiveness 37 The Pauper Labor Argument 37 BOX: Do Wages Reflect Productivity? 38 Exploitation 39 Comparative Advantage with Many Goods 40 Setting Up the Model 40 Relative Wages and Specialization 40 Determining the Relative Wage in the Multigood Model 42 ix ... 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