As a developing nation in the process of undergoing successful and relatively equitable development, Vietnam is recognized as an example of the potential opportunities afforded by a successful trade driven development strategy. Improved understanding of the linkages between trade, growth, and...

Future trends of China's agricultural trade have been a subject of considerable debate among agricultural economists. One particular problem is that China may be a large country relative to some world agricultural markets, yet virtually all previous studies assumed a perfectly competitive world...

The US and the EU use outward processing arrangements to shift labor intensive apparel operations to neighboring countries who have significantly lower labor costs, to promote demand for their capital-intensive textiles, and to provide economic assistance to the developing countries. They...

The study by Rama and Sa (2005) focuses on identifying similarities between the findings of the CGE studies. The present study attempts, instead, to focus on differences. Do studies really differ that much? This overall question is addressed by providing a detailed review of assumptions, data,...

During the past two decades Vietnam has witnessed increasing engagement with the world market, achieved through entry into numerous international trading agreements, altered border policies, institutional reforms, and relaxation of controls on foreign investment. These endeavors have been repaid...

This paper examines Vietnam’s experience with bilateral trade agreements and compares subsequent outcomes with predictions from existing computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. Those model based assessments have greatly underestimated the impact of past agreements. Tariff reform is not...

A dynamic, game theoretic model with switching costs provides better understanding of motives that keep export subsidies a part of exporters' agricultural policies. Switching costs include factors, such as transactions costs and political considerations, that affect an importer's purchasing...

This dissertation develops a cost benefit framework that explains firms' international entry decisions, accounting for consumer demand for differentiated products, competitors' strategies and distributors' market power. It is used to explain the economics of observed entry patterns of Spanish...

Unilateral trade reforms and establishment of Mercosur led to increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) into Argentina. These inflows financed acquisition of new capital and/or renovation of existing plants, resulting in significant expansion in Argentina's capital stock and more rapid economic...

Liberalization of the cocoa market in West Africa, due to structural adjustment reforms, has resulted in the elimination of para-statal marketing boards and initiated the creation of new institutions to replace the marketing services of those agencies. Concerns have been raised as to the effects...