own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or costly to trade, and are best transferred through foreign direct … investment. This has important implications for public policy since policies that impact on foreign direct investment are often … quite different from those that impact on trade in goods. We develop a model of these services in this paper. Results show …

This paper examines the evidence on technology diffusion through trade in differentiated intermediate goods. Because … countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … embodied in intermediate goods than another that imports primarily from follower countries. I try to quantify the importance of …

The paper first extends and reconciles recent estimates of the strikingly large effect of national borders on trade … patterns. Estimates comparing trade among Canadian provinces with that between Canadian provinces and U.S. states show … interprovincial trade in 1988-90 to have been more than twenty times as dense as that between provinces and states, with some evidence …

classification of products as domestic vs. imports weakened the effectiveness of the standards …

This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts. The … Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the growing bilateral trade deficit in auto parts. The paper also …

, Asian affiliates of U.S. MNCs export more to markets where their parent firms' exports to affiliates are larger, and less to … parent exports. These relationships are fairly consistent across industries and markets, across markets within two industries …

In May, 1981, a voluntary export restraint (VER) was placed on exports of automobiles from Japan to the United States …. As trade policies go, this one was important. At about the same time, though to much less fanfare, international trade … theorists were obtaining (then) startling results from models of international trade in imperfectly competitive markets. These …

Extending McCallum's (1995) result, based on a gravity model of 1988 trade flows, that a typical Canadian province … trade patterns compare with those of other provinces. The results, based on revised data for 1988, 1989 and 1990, show that … the multiple is even greater. Thus trade between Quebec and the United States appears to be an even less viable …

For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood … industry has sought to have countervailing duties imposed upon Canadian lumber imports. The U.S. interests argue that Canada … subsidizes its sawmills by providing timber from public forests at below-market prices, and by restricting exports of Canadian …

) and on the effects of protection on industry performance (section III), it is not at all obvious that trade protection was … a regime crisis and reexamines the industry's pursuit of aggressive trade policy toward Japanese producers in this …