The purpose of this paper is to investigate how trade policies which do not have an explicit spatial objective can implicitly influence the spatial pattern of development in an economy. A version of the neoclassical two-sector model is developed to demonstrate how the introduction of tariffs on...

This paper develops a simple regional model to analyze the spatial consequences of sectoral policies. The model focuses o n the regional specificity and footlooseness of different sectors, an d shows that any policy which alters the balance between sectors in a n economy inevitably alters the...

This paper presents a simple model of a small open economy which is open to both commodity trade and foreign investment of a sector-specific kind, and which exhibits the phenomenon of ‘cross-hauling’, or reverse flows of internationally mobile capital in two different sectors. The model,...

This paper analyses the extent and determinants of backward local linkages between multinational companies and domestic suppliers in the Irish electronics industry, and their effect on indirect employment generated in domestic supplier firms. Several models in recent literature show that...

It is often argued that foreign firms may enhance the productivity of indigenous firms in an economy, through forward or backward linkages. Such externality effects typically are called "productivity spillovers". In terms of foreign direct investment (FDI), Ireland is one of the most globalized...

This paper considers an economy that has the option of opening up its service sector to international trade at either the factor or the product level. Assuming nonidentical technologies in the context of a competitive, specific-factors framework, the paper shows that opening up trade always...