TY  - BOOK
AU  - Markusen, James R,
TI  - Multinational firms and the theory of international trade
SN  - 0262134160
AV  - HF 1379 .M37 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Comercio internacional
KW  - Empresas transnacionales
N1  - 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
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