ontents of RDE: Volume 11

Volume 11, Issue 1, February 2007

Contents

Recycling and International Trade Theory
Kazunori Tanigaki

The Impact of Exporting and Export Destination on Manufacturing Wages: Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa
Chris Milner and Verena Tandrayen

Foreign-owned versus Domestically-owned Firms: Economic Performance in Japan
Fukunari Kimura and Kozo Kiyota

Trade Sanctions and the Incidence of Child Labor
Harald Grossmann and Jochen Michaelis

Coca Substitution and Free Trade in Bolivia: The Pending Crisis
Hugo Toledo

The Trojan-Horse Principle in Development Assistance: A Reading of Uganda’s Experience with Aid
Arjan Verschoor

Argentina: Macroeconomic Crisis and Household Vulnerability
Ana Corbacho, Mercedes Garcia Escribano and Gabriela Inchauste

Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long run Comparison
Wolfgang Keller and Carol H. Shiue

Endogenous Growth, Taxes and Government
Zulal S. Denaux

Aid, Agriculture and Poverty in Developing Countries
Paul Mosley and Abrar Suleiman

Is International Trade More Beneficial to Lower-Income Economies? An Empirical Inquiry
Farhad Rassekh

The Nature of Unemployment among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia
Pieter Serneels

R&D Policies and Endogenous Growth: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of the Case for Canada
Madanmohan Ghosh

Special Issue: New Paradigms in Economics of Welfare and Trade under Globalization and Regionalization
Guest Editor: Koji Shimomura, Makoto Tawada and Binh Tran-Nam

Contents

Protection and Exchange Rates in a Small Open Economy
John Chipman

Heterogeneity, networks & international trade under monopolistic competition
Hiep Nguyen and Hiroshi Ohta

A new dynamic trade model of increasing returns and monopolistic competition
Toru Kikuchi & Koji Shimomura

International income transfer under imperfect competition
Masayuki Okawa

Status-seeking, catching-up and comparative statics in a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model
Yunfang Hu and Koji Shimomura

Endogenous timing in a trade policy game in a two-country model
Yordying Suparsi and Makoto Tawada

On endogenous trade policies for a developing economy
Nguyen Manh Hung and Nguyen Van Quyen

Tariff revenue competition in a free trade area: The case of asymmetric countries
Taiji Furusawa and Naoto Jinji

Trade policy & informal wages
Sugata Marjit, Saibal Kar and Hamid Beladi

A model of outsourcing and FDI
Frank Staehler

Trans-boundary pollution & brain drain migration
Kenji Kondoh

Temporary and permanent immigration under unionization
Lex Zhao and Kenji Kondoh

How effective are emission taxes in an open economy
Jota Ishikawa andTomohiro Kuroda

Moral hazards, bankruptcy costs, and international financial capital mobility
Sanjay Bannerji and Ngo Van Long

Optimal commodity taxation
Murray Kemp and Koji Shimomura

Sustainability or ruin of a common resource economy with random jumps
Masatoshi Fujisaki, Seiichi Katayama and Hiroshi Ohta

Quasi-competitive Bertrand oligopoly with symmetric firms
Koji Okuguchi

School choice & intergenerationqal poverty trap
Kazuo Nishimura and Lakshmi Raut

Endogenous growth and publicly funded knowledge accumulation
Cong Nghe Truong and Binh Tran-Nam

Contents

Unemployment and International Factor Movement in the Presence of Skilled and Unskilled Labor
Shigemi Yabuuchi

A Poverty Trap of Crime and Unemployment
Luciano Mauro and Gaetano Carmeci

Asymmetric Labor Markets, Southern Wages and the Location of Firms
Alireza Naghavi

The Impact of Liberalizing Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment in Services: The Case of Russian Accession to the World Trade Organization”
Jesper Jensen, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

Corruption, Bribery and Wait Times in the Public Allocation of Goods in Developing Countries
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Seung Jick Yoo

Is Fiscal Policy Sustainable in Developing Economies?
Subrata Ghatak and José R. Sánchez-Fung

Economic Convergence in Seven Asian Economies
Haizheng Li and Zhenhui Xu

International Knowledge Spillovers to Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia
Jojo Jacob and Adam Szirmai

The Impact of Liberalizing Trade in Services on Trade in Goods: An Empirical Investigation
Juan S. Blyde and Natalia Sinyavskaya

Contents

Work Effort, Moderation in Expulsion, and Illegal Migration
Oded Stark

Gender Bias in Education: the Role of Inter-household Externality, Dowry and other Social Institutions
Sajal Lahiri and Sharmistha Self

Openness, Investment Climate and FDI in Developing Countries
Khalid Sekkat and Marie-Ange Veganzones-Varoudakis

Partial Free Trade Agreements and Economic Welfare: Reconsidering GATT Article 24
Michihiro Ohyama

Labor Conflict and Foreign Investments: An Analysis of FDI in India (25 pages)
Nidhiya Menon and Paroma Sanyal

The Division of Labor and Growth in China 1952-1999
Paresh Kumar Naraya and Guang-Zhen Sun

Special Section: Dynamics, Economic Growth, and  International Trade

Guest Editors: Bjarne S. Jensen  and  David Mayer-Foulkes

Innovation Shortfalls
William Maloney and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

Factor Price Equality and Biased Technical Change in a Two-Cone Trade Model
Daniel Becker and Erich Gundlach

Schumpeterian Growth with Productive Public Spending and Distortionary Taxation
Pietro F. Peretto

A Theoretical Reexamination of Privatization:  Assessing its Welfare Impacts
Alvin Ang and Masatoshi Yamada