Multinational firms and the theory of international trade /
James R. Markusen.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2002.
- xxii, 440 páginas : gráficos y tablas ; 22 cm.
Incluye bibliografía e índice.
Acknowledgments, ix -- Preface, xi -- Notation, xix -- I. Technology, Costs, and Market Structure, 1 -- 1. Statistics, Stylized Facts, and Basic Concepts, 3 -- 2. A Partial-Equilibrium, Single-Firm Model of Plant Location, 21 -- 3. International Duopoly with Endogenous Market Structures, 39 -- 4. Incumbency, Preemption, and Persistence, 61 -- 5. A General-Equilibrium Oligopoly Model of Horizontal Multinationals, 77 -- 6. General-Equilibrium Monopolistic-Competition Model of Horizontal Multinationals, 105 -- 7. The Knowledge-Capital Model, 127 -- 8. Extensions to the Knowledge-Capital Model: Trade versus Affiliate Production, Factor-Price Effects, and Welfare Effects of Trade and Investment Liberalization, 153 -- 9. Traded Intermedíate Inputs and Vertical Multinationals, 189 -- II. Empirical Estimation and Testing, 215 -- 10. Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model, 217 -- 11. Production for Export versus Local Sale, 241 -- 12. Discriminating among Alternative Models of the Multinational, 263 -- III. Internalization, 285 -- 13. A Reputation Model of Internalization, 287 -- 14. A Learning Model of Internalization, with Applications to Contract and Intellectual-Property-Rights Enforcement, 307 -- 15. An Asymmetric-Information Model of Internalization, 323 -- Technical Appendices, 343 -- Preface to Technical Appendices, 345 -- Appendix 1: Stop Avoiding Inequalities and Complementarity Problems: A Simple Partial-Equilibrium Model Illustrating the GAMS MCP Solver, 347 -- Appendix 2: Who's Afraid of Applied GE Modeling? A General- Equilibrium Version of Appendix 1 Using the MCP Solver, 35 -- Appendix 3: Doing It the Easy Way: General-Equilibrium Problem of Appendix 2 Using the MPS/GE Subsystem of GAMS, 365 -- Appendix 4: Fun with Sets and Conditionals: GAMS Program Generating the Nash Equilibria in Figures 3.6 and 3.7, 375 -- Appendix 5: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Computer: Program Generating Figures 5.1 and 5.2 Using the MPS/GE Subsystem of GAMS, 383 -- Appendix 6: Chef's Special for Dixit-Stiglitz Lovers: Program Generating Figures 6.1 and 6.2 Using MCP, 399 -- Notes, 409 -- References, 419 -- Index, 429.