A modern adaptation of the Ricardian model is used, which incorporates monopolistic competition and multiple factors to derive a MacDougall-type relation between a country's international competitiveness at the industry level and its productivity performance. This relation is implemented...

This paper questions the feasibility of Pareto-type gains from international factor movements, without lump-sum compensations, when taxes (subsidies) on factors and consumers located within the same country cannot discriminate on the basis of national origin. As the analysis shows, no...

This paper develops empirically feasible tests of the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade in the case where factor prices are not equal between countries. To allow for factor-price differences across industries within each country, three variants of the model are...

The high variance of exchange rates can be partially explained by the fact that traders with transitory demands can have temporary effects on the market rates. In this paper we explore theoretically the effect on market prices of these non-informational traders when the number of market makers...