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ISBN 10: 1-292-21487-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-292-21487-0 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset in Times NR MT Pro by SPi Global Printed and bound by Vivar in Malaysia A01_KRUG4870_11_GE_FM.indd 4 24/10/17 11:08 pm Brief Contents Contents 7 Preface 19 1 Introduction 29 PART 1 International Trade Theory 38 2 World Trade: An Overview 38 3 Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model 52 4 Specific Factors and Income Distribution 79 5 Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model 115 6 The Standard Trade Model 151 7 External Economies of Scale and the International Location of Production 179 8 Firms in the Global Economy: Export Decisions, Outsourcing, and Multinational Enterprises 198 PART 2 International Trade Policy 243 9 The Instruments of Trade Policy 243 10 The Political Economy of Trade Policy 274 11 Trade Policy in Developing Countries 311 12 Controversies in Trade Policy 326 PART 3 Exchange Rates and Open-Economy Macroeconomics 349 13 National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments 349 14 Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach 378 15 Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates 414 16 Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 449 17 Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run 487 18 Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention 534 PART 4 International Macroeconomic Policy 579 19 International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview 579 20 Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis 642 21 Optimum Currency Areas and the Euro 681 22 Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform 720 5 A01_KRUG4870_11_GE_FM.indd 5 24/10/17 11:08 pm 6 Brief Contents Mathematical Postscripts 764 Postscript to Chapter 5: The Factor-Proportions Model ......................................................764 Postscript to Chapter 6: The Trading World Economy .........................................................768 Postscript to Chapter 8: The Monopolistic Competition Model ...........................................776 Postscript to Chapter 20: Risk Aversion and International Portfolio Diversification ............778 Index 785 Credits C-1 A01_KRUG4870_11_GE_FM.indd 6 24/10/17 11:08 pm Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................19 1 Introduction 29 What Is International Economics About? .............................................................................31 The Gains from Trade ............................................................................................................32 The Pattern of Trade ..............................................................................................................33 How Much Trade? ..................................................................................................................33 Balance of Payments ..............................................................................................................34 Exchange Rate Determination ...............................................................................................35 International Policy Coordination ..........................................................................................35 The International Capital Market ...........................................................................................36 International Economics: Trade and Money .........................................................................37 PART 1 International Trade Theory 38 2 World Trade: An Overview 38 Who Trades with Whom? .....................................................................................................38 Size Matters: The Gravity Model ...........................................................................................39 Using the Gravity Model: Looking for Anomalies .................................................................41 Impediments to Trade: Distance, Barriers, and Borders .........................................................42 The Changing Pattern of World Trade .................................................................................44 Has the World Gotten Smaller? ..............................................................................................44 What Do We Trade? ...............................................................................................................46 Service Offshoring ..................................................................................................................47 Do Old Rules Still Apply? ....................................................................................................49 Summary .............................................................................................................................50 3 Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model 52 The Concept of Comparative Advantage ...............................................................................53 A One-Factor Economy .......................................................................................................54 Relative Prices and Supply......................................................................................................56 Trade in a One-Factor World ...............................................................................................57 Determining the Relative Price after Trade .............................................................................58 box: Comparative Advantage in Practice: The Case of Usain Bolt ........................................61 The Gains from Trade ............................................................................................................62 A Note on Relative Wages ......................................................................................................63 box: Economic Isolation and Autarky over Time and Space ..................................................64 Misconceptions about Comparative Advantage .....................................................................65 Productivity and Competitiveness ..........................................................................................65 box: Do Wages Reflect Productivity? ...................................................................................66 The Pauper Labor Argument .................................................................................................67 Exploitation ...........................................................................................................................67 Comparative Advantage with Many Goods ...........................................................................68 Setting Up the Model .............................................................................................................68 Relative Wages and Specialization ..........................................................................................68 Determining the Relative Wage in the Multigood Model .......................................................70 7 A01_KRUG4870_11_GE_FM.indd 7 24/10/17 11:08 pm 8 Contents Adding Transport Costs and Nontraded Goods .....................................................................72 Empirical Evidence on the Ricardian Model .........................................................................73 Summary .............................................................................................................................76 4 Specific Factors and Income Distribution 79 The Specific Factors Model ..................................................................................................80 box: What Is a Specific Factor? ............................................................................................81 Assumptions of the Model .....................................................................................................81 Production Possibilities ..........................................................................................................82 Prices, Wages, and Labor Allocation ......................................................................................85 Relative Prices and the Distribution of Income ......................................................................89 International Trade in the Specific Factors Model ................................................................91 Income Distribution and the Gains from Trade .....................................................................92 The Political Economy of Trade: A Preliminary View ...........................................................95 Income Distribution and Trade Politics ..................................................................................96 case study: Trade and Unemployment ...................................................................................96 International Labor Mobility .............................................................................................100 case study: Wage Convergence in the European Union ........................................................102 case study: Immigration and the U.S. Economy: Future Prospects .......................................104 Summary ...........................................................................................................................107 5 Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model 115 Model of a Two-Factor Economy .......................................................................................116 Prices and Production ..........................................................................................................116 Choosing the Mix of Inputs .................................................................................................119 Factor Prices and Goods Prices ............................................................................................121 Resources and Output ..........................................................................................................124 Effects of International Trade between Two-Factor Economies ...........................................125 Relative Prices and the Pattern of Trade ...............................................................................126 Trade and the Distribution of Income ..................................................................................127 case study: North-South Trade and Income Inequality ........................................................128 Skill-Biased Technological Change and Income Inequality ..................................................130 box: The Declining Labor Share of Income and Capital-Skill Complementarity .................134 Factor-Price Equalization .....................................................................................................135 Empirical Evidence on the Heckscher-Ohlin Model ............................................................136 Trade in Goods as a Substitute for Trade in Factors: Factor Content of Trade ....................137 Patterns of Exports between Developed and Developing Countries .....................................140 Implications of the Tests ......................................................................................................142 Summary ...........................................................................................................................143 6 The Standard Trade Model 151 A Standard Model of a Trading Economy ..........................................................................152 Production Possibilities and Relative Supply ........................................................................152 Relative Prices and Demand .................................................................................................153 The Welfare Effect of Changes in the Terms of Trade ..........................................................156 Determining Relative Prices .................................................................................................157 case study: Unequal Gains from Trade across the Income Distribution ................................157 Economic Growth: A Shift of the RS Curve ........................................................................160 Growth and the Production Possibility Frontier ...................................................................160 World Relative Supply and the Terms of Trade ....................................................................162 International Effects of Growth ...........................................................................................163 A01_KRUG4870_11_GE_FM.indd 8 24/10/17 11:08 pm Contents 9 case study: Has the Growth of Newly Industrialized Economies Hurt Advanced Nations? ................................................................................................164 Tariffs and Export Subsidies: Simultaneous Shifts in RS and RD .......................................166 Relative Demand and Supply Effects of a Tariff ..................................................................166 Effects of an Export Subsidy ................................................................................................167 Implications of Terms of Trade Effects: Who Gains and Who Loses? ..................................168 International Borrowing and Lending .................................................................................169 Intertemporal Production Possibilities and Trade .................................................................169 The Real Interest Rate ..........................................................................................................170 Intertemporal Comparative Advantage ................................................................................172 Summary ...........................................................................................................................172 7 External Economies of Scale and the International Location of Production 179 Economies of Scale and International Trade: An Overview .................................................180 Economies of Scale and Market Structure ..........................................................................181 The Theory of External Economies ....................................................................................182 Specialized Suppliers..........................................................................................................182 Labor Market Pooling .......................................................................................................183 Knowledge Spillovers ..........................................................................................................184 External Economies and Market Equilibrium ......................................................................185 External Economies and International Trade ......................................................................186 External Economies, Output, and Prices ..............................................................................186 External Economies and the Pattern of Trade ......................................................................187 box: Holding the World Together .......................................................................................189 Trade and Welfare with External Economies ........................................................................190 Dynamic Increasing Returns ................................................................................................191 Interregional Trade and Economic Geography ....................................................................192 box: Soccer and the English Premiere League ....................................................................194 Summary ...........................................................................................................................195 8 Firms in the Global Economy: Export Decisions, Outsourcing, and Multinational Enterprises 198 The Theory of Imperfect Competition ................................................................................199 Monopoly: A Brief Review ..................................................................................................200 Monopolistic Competition ...................................................................................................202 Monopolistic Competition and Trade .................................................................................207 The Effects of Increased Market Size ...................................................................................207 Gains from an Integrated Market: A Numerical Example ....................................................208 The Significance of Intra-Industry Trade .............................................................................212 case study: Automobile Intra-Industry Trade within ASEAN-4: 1998–2002 ........................214 Firm Responses to Trade: Winners, Losers, and Industry Performance ...............................215 Performance Differences across Producers ...........................................................................216 The Effects of Increased Market Size ...................................................................................218 Trade Costs and Export Decisions ......................................................................................220 Dumping ............................................................................................................................222 case study: Antidumping as Protectionism ..........................................................................223 Multinationals and Outsourcing .........................................................................................225 case study: Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment Flows around the World .................................................................................................225 A01_KRUG4870_11_GE_FM.indd 9 24/10/17 11:08 pm

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