Specialization, Fragmentation, and Factor Intensities: Evidence from Chilean Plant-level Data (2008)
Chung, Chul., Deardorff, Alan V.
The Journal of Developing Areas - Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2008
Issues of Manufactures Liberalization and Administered Protection in the Doha Round (2005)
Deardorff, Alan V, Stern, Robert M
This article focuses especially on the positions that the developing countries should take in their own interests on the issues of manufactures liberalization and administered protection. A series of...
Issues of Manufactures Liberalization and Administered Protection in the Doha Round (2005)
Deardorff, Alan V, Stern, Robert M
This article focuses especially on the positions that the developing countries should take in their own interests on the issues of manufactures liberalization and administered protection. A series of...
Issues of Manufactures Liberalization and Administered Protection in the Doha Round (2005)
Deardorff, Alan V, Stern, Robert M
This article focuses especially on the positions that the developing countries should take in their own interests on the issues of manufactures liberalization and administered protection. A series of...
Issues of Manufactures Liberalization and Administered Protection in the Doha Round (2005)
Deardorff, Alan V, Stern, Robert M
This article focuses especially on the positions that the developing countries should take in their own interests on the issues of manufactures liberalization and administered protection. A series of...
Globalization’s Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate? (2005)
Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
This paper uses trade theory to examine the effects of trade liberalization on countries that do not participate in it. These include both countries that fail to participate in multilateral trade...
Patterns of Trade and Growth across Cones (2000)
This paper examines the implications of the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) Model for the patterns of production and trade that will emerge as a country grows. It focuses primarily on world equilibria that...
Chadha, Rajesh, Brown, Drusilla K., Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
The Indian economy has experienced a major transformation during the decade of the 1990s. Apart from the impact of various unilateral economic reforms undertaken since 1991, the economy also had to...
International Provision of Trade Services, Trade, and Fragmentation (1999)
This paper examines the special role that trade liberalization in service industries can play in stimulating not only trade in services itself, but also in stimulating trade in goods. International...
Trade and Labor Standards (1998)
Brown, Drusilla K., Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
The purpose of our paper is to explore the different views of the issues of international labor standards and to explore the available options for addressing these issues. We conclude that: (1) there...
The appropriate extent of intellectual property rights in art (1995)
The paper examines whether intellectual property rights in art should be extended to the entire world. In earlier papers, the economics of patent rights have been examined and the argument made that...
The possibility of factor price equalization, revisited (1994)
This paper derives a condition for factor price equalization (FPE) in a Heckscher-Ohlin model with many goods, factors, and countries. Using Dixit and Norman's integrated world economy (IWE), two...
Amenities, Nontraded Goods, and the Trade of Lumpy Countries (1993)
Courant, Paul N., Deardorff, Alan V.
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Haveman, Jon D., Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
We use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to assess the sectoral effects of (1) a 25 percent unilateral reduction of military expenditures in the individual NATO countries and (2) a 25...
An interpretation of the factor content of trade (1988)
Deardorff, Alan V., Staiger, Robert W.
This paper shows that the factor content of trade can be used to indicate effects of trade on relative factor prices. Factor prices in two trading equilibria can be compared by comparing instead...
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Neighborhood effects of developing country protection (1986)
Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
We examine how protection in LDCs affects welfare in other countries whose economic circumstances are similar. Theoretical analysis suggests the effects may be positive or negative. Analysis of data...
Firless firwoes: How preferences can interfere with the theorems of international trade (1986)
An example is presented of a two-country, two-factor, four-good trade model in which free trade causes factor prices to be drawn farther apart than they were in autarky. The example is equivalent to...
Input-output technologies and the effects of tariff reductions (1985)
Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
Using input-output (IO) tables from several developed countries (United States, EEC, and Japan) and one developing country (Brazil), we calculate the effects of tariff removal using various...
Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
We present in this paper a computational model of world production, trade, and employment that is disaggregated by country and sector and report on the application of the model to the changes in...
The correlation between price and output changes when there are many goods (1980)
It is shown that competition in the production of many goods implies a positive correlation between the elements of a vector of changes in normalized prices and the corresponding vector of changes in...
Weak links in the chain of comparative advantage (1979)
This paper examines the proposition that trade in many commodities can be explained by a chain of comparative advantage. It is first shown, in a two-country, two-factor model, that trade accords with...
The terms-of-trade effect on expenditure : Some evidence from econometric models (1978)
Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
The terms-of-trade effect on expenditure has been a long-recognized theoretical construct. In this paper, we examine the empirical credibility of this effect, using the expenditure equations of...
How Robust is Comparative Advantage?
This paper reviews the theoretical development of the concept of comparative advantage, starting with the two-good model of Ricardo and the two-good extension and reinterpretation by Haberler. In...
Rajesh Chadha, Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
The Indian economy has experienced a major transformation during the decade of the 1990s. Apart from the impact of various unilateral economic reforms undertaken since 1991, the economy also had to...
International Trade with Lumpy Countries.
Courant, Paul N, Deardorff, Alan V
This paper explores the implications for the pattern of international trade of differences among regions within countries--what the authors call "lumpiness." If factors of production are sufficiently...
Who Makes the Rules of Globalization?
In this paper I argue that profit-maximizing firms, even though they contribute to social welfare when they compete in the market, may not do so when they influence the political process. In...
What Should the Developing Countries Do in the Context of the Current Impasse of the Doha Round?
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
If the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations fails, the biggest losers will be developing countries. In this paper we argue why this is the case and examine various options that may be...
How Robust is Comparative Advantage?
This paper reviews the theoretical development of the concept of comparative advantage, starting with the two-good model of Ricardo and the two-good extension and reinterpretation by Haberler. In...
A Centennial of Antidumping Legislation and Implementation -- Introduction and Overview
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
A century has passed since the Government of Canada adopted the first recorded antidumping law in 1904. The Canadian legislation was soon followed by similar legislation in most of the major trading...
Globalization’s Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate?
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
This paper uses trade theory to examine the effects of trade liberalization on countries that do not participate in it. These include both countries that fail to participate in multilateral trade...
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been billed from the start as the “Doha Development Agenda,” with the promise in the Doha Ministerial...
Trade and Location: A Moving Example Motivated by Japan
If trade costs matter for trade, and if distance matters for at least some trade costs, then location matters for trade. This may be especially important for Japan, given its distance from other...
Who Makes the Rules of Globalization
In this paper I argue that profit maximizing firms, even though they contribute to social welfare when they compete in the market, may not do so when they influence the political process. In...
A Trade Theorist’s Take on Skilled-Labor Outsourcing
Recent concern has attended the phenomenon of skilled-labor outsourcing, in which firms in the U.S. and other advanced countries have drawn upon the services of skilled workers in developing...
Child Labor: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
There is a growing theoretical and empirical literature concerning the causes and consequences of child labor. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the policy initiatives targeted on child...
Designing a Pro-Active Stance for India in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
Alan V Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
In this paper, we first summarize the framework that has been agreed upon as the basis for the WTO Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. We then discuss briefly the design and mission of the...
International provision of trade services, trade, and fragmentation
The author examines the special role that trade liberalization in services industries can play in stimulating trade in both services, and goods. International trade in goods requires inputs from such...
Rich and Poor Countries in Neoclassical Trade and Growth.
A neoclassical growth model provides an explanation for a "poverty trap", "club convergence", or "twin peaks", in terms of specialisation and international trade. The model has many countries with...
Does Growth Encourage Factor Price Equalization?
This paper first notes the importance of "one-cone" versus "multi-cone" equilibria in the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade, then asks whether economic growth in neoclassical growth models...
Welfare Effects of Global Patent Protection.
This paper uses a simple model of invention and patent protection to examine the welfare effects of extending patent protection from the country where invention takes place to another country that is...
A Centennial of Anti-dumping Legislation and Implementation: Introduction and Overview
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
A century has passed since the Government of Canada adopted the first recorded anti-dumping law in 1904. The Canadian legislation was soon followed by similar legislation in most of the major trading...
This essay was written for the Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy. The Ricardian Model describes a world in which goods are competitively produced from a single factor of production, labor,...
Local Comparative Advantage: Trade Costs and the Pattern of Trade
When there are costs of trade, such as transport or other costs, the pattern of trade may not be well described by the usual measures of comparative advantage, which simply compare a country’s...
Forecasting U.S. Trade in Services
Alan V. Deardorff, Saul H. Hymans, Robert M Stern, Chong Xiang
This paper provides a set of forecasts of United States international trade in services, both at the aggregate level and for four subcategories. These sectors are: travel, which is mostly tourist...
CGE Modeling and Analysis of Multilateral and Regional Negotiating Options
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
We have used the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the economic effects on the United States, Japan, and other major trading countries/regions of: the Uruguay Round of...
Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade-Policy Options for the United States and Japan
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
We have used the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the economic effects on the United States, Japan, and other major trading countries/regions of a prospective new round of WTO...
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
We have used the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the economic effects on the NAFTA member countries and other major trading countries/regions of a prospective new round of...
In this paper I lay out the case, as I see it, for tariffication of services. I argue that the prospects for achieving significant liberalization of the international provision of services will be...
Pros and Cons of Linking Trade and Labor Standards
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
This paper addresses the debate over whether labor standards ought to be linked to trade policy, specifically by being included in the World Trade Organization and becoming subject to trade...
The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
This paper is designed to assess the empirical evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries. It is motivated by the controversies...
The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
This paper is designed to assess the empirical evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries. It is motivated by the controversies...
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
Almost from its inception as the European Economic Community, the European Union has excited the hope if not the expectation that it would generate dynamic gains from trade, including perhaps a...
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
We have used the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the economic effects of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations completed in 1993-94 on the major industrialized...
Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade-Policy Options for the United States and Japan
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M Stern
We have used the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the economic effects on the United States, Japan, and other major trading countries/regions of the Doha Round of WTO...
What Might Globalization's Critics Believe?
Critics of globalization object to many things, some of which can be easily understood within standard economic models, but others of which seem to reflect a view of the world that economists...
Developing Countries' Stake in the Doha Round
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
In this paper we discuss the various aspects of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the WTO that offer potential benefits for developing countries. We then use the Michigan Model of...
Michigan's Stake in International Trade and Investment
This paper provides descriptive data on the interactions of the economy of the State of Michigan with the rest of the world outside the United States. Most of the focus is on international trade and...
Enhancing the Benefits for Developing Countries in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
This is a position paper dealing with the major issues of the Doha Round negotiations that are of importance for developing countries. It was prepared for circulation prior to the Cancun Ministerial...
Robert W. Staiger, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
The authors consider the relationship between the factor content of Japanes e and American foreign trade and examine empirically whether discrepa ncies between the Heckscher-Ohlin theoretical...
Ricardian Comparative Advantage with Intermediate Inputs
This paper examines the role of comparative advantage in a Ricardian trade model with intermediate inputs. The first issue is how to define comparative advantage when there are intermediate inputs....
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
Teaching module prepared for a World Bank course on Trade In Services And International Trade Agreements: The Development Dimension, January 2, 2004; in Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern, and Gianni...
What You Should Know about Globalization and the World Trade Organization.
Deardorff, Alan V, Stern, Robert M
This paper reviews the essentials of economic globalization, as well as the major institution that has recently gotten much of the credit and blame for it, the World Trade Organization (WTO). It...
Policy Implications of the Trade and Wages Debate.
This paper examines the choice of policies to redistribute income in response to an increase in inequality caused by a rise in the differential wage paid to skilled labor compared with unskilled...
Diverging Populations and Endogenous Growth in a Model of Meaningless Trade.
The endogenous growth literature raises the possibility that countries may grow without bound in terms of per capita income, and that they may do so at different rates. This possibility also exists...
On the Likelihood of Factor Price Equalization with Nontraded Goods.
Deardorff, Alan V, Courant, Paul N
It is argued that nontraded goods reduce the likelihood of factor price equalization. Specifically, the addition of nontraded goods to a small, open-economy Heckscher-Ohlin model with any number of...
Trade and location: A moving example motivated by Japan
If trade costs matter for trade, and if distance matters for at least some trade costs, then location matters for trade. This may be especially important for Japan, given its distance from other...
Developing country growth and developed country response
This paper makes a theoretical argument that growth in developing countries is likely to worsen the income distribution in developed countries and lead to a protectionist response that undermines the...
TARIFF AND DEFENSIVE RESPONSES: A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS
ALAN V. DEARDORFF, ROBERT M. STERN
We use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to analyze how other countries might be affected by unilateral import surcharge and then to determine how large a surcharge might be required...
The Effects of Protection on the Factor Content of Japanese and American Foreign Trade.
Staiger, Robert W, Deardorff, Alan V, Stern, Robert M
Data on pre-Tokyo Round tariffs and ad valorem approximations of nontariff barriers are used in the Michigan Computational Model of World Production and Trade to calculate changes in commodity trade...
Growth and International Investment with Diverging Populations.
A two-country, neoclassical growth model is examined, in which the countries populations grow at different rates Individually modeled like the Solow one-sector growth model but with perfectly mobile...
Technology, Trade, and Increasing Inequality: Does the Cause Matter for the Cure?
This paper addresses an issue that has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both from international trade economists and from labor economists: What has caused the relative wage of...
Measurement of Non-Tariff Barriers
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
For governments, the advantage of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade is that their effects are more certain than for tariffs. Now that tariff barriers have been substantially reduced, there has been...
Determinants of Bilateral Trade: Does Gravity Work in a Neoclassical World?
This paper derives bilateral trade from two cases of the Heckscher-Ohlin Model, both also representing a variety of other models as well. First is frictionless trade, in which the absence of all...
The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries. It is motivated by recent controversies concerning whether...
Globalization's Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate?
Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
globalization, trade liberalization
The Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations within the World Trade Organization has reached an impasse from which it may never recover. Policymakers in Korea, as in other countries, must decide...
Some Reflections on Nurkse's "Patterns of Trade and Development"
We will never know how Nurkse'd5s views of trade and development would have evolved, had he been able to observe the contrasting experiences of developing countries over subsequent years. However,...
Buyer Concentration in Markets for Developing Country Exports
Alan V. Deardorff, Indira Rajaraman
The authors explore the implications of buyer concentration in markets for primary commodity exports of developing countries. Simple partial equilibrium models of monopsony and oligopsony show that...
Economic Effects of 'Leveling the Playing Field' in International Trade
This paper uses simple economic theory to examine the effects of various policies that are intended to level the playing field in international trade. That is, when foreign producers are given...
Alternatives to the Doha Round
Deardorff, Alan V., Stern, Robert M.
Doha Round Developing countries Developed countries Bilateral arrangements Unilateral arrangements