James Markusen

including ©notice, is given to the source. Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment (2003)

Karolina Ekholm, Rikard Forslid, James R. Markusen, Karolina Ekholm, Rikard Forslid, James R. Markusen, ...

Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate’s output is (largely) sold in third markets rather than in the parent or host markets has received empirical attention recently, but...

Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI

James Markusen

Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely fresh approach? I try to...

Trade and direct investment in producer services and the domestic market for expertise

James Markusen, Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr

Foreign producer services can provide substantial benefits for domestic firms. We build on earlier monopolistic-competition models of intermediate producer services in this paper. Results show that:...

Trade Policy with Increasing Returns and Imperfect Competition: Contradictory Results from Competing Assumptions

James Markusen, Anthony J Venables

A number of recent papers reach different conclusions concerning the effects of trade and industrial policy on imperfectly competitive industries; the implications for policy are therefore sensitive...

Foreign direct investment in services and the domestic market for expertise

Markusen, James, Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David

A growing body of evidence suggests that the close availability of diverse business services is important for economic growth. Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can...

Learning on the Cheap and Quick: Gains from trade through imported expertise

James Markusen, Thomas F. Rutherford

Gains from knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms has received a good deal of empirical attention, but micro-foundations for this mechanism are weak . Here we focus on...

Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment

Karolina Ekholm, Rikard Forslid, James Markusen

Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate's output is (largely) sold in third markets rather than in the parent or host markets has received empirical attention recently, but...