As tariffs and trade deals make headlines, here’s a perfect puzzle: Why, as tariffs fell and supply chains expanded in the ...

Economics may be the dismal science, and economists may be boring, but there really are a few eternal economic truths worthy of inscription in stone. The quantity of a good demanded declines as its ...

This paper contains an analysis of the pattern of comparative advantage in a model of growing international economy where intercountry productivity differentials are affected by, among other things, ...

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The problem of maximizing the gross national product of a country subject to domestic resource constraints, given exogenous international prices, is studied. The primal problem allows for a general ...

A seminar on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the China Association of International Trade and the 20th anniversary of ...

To help understand international trade, suppose that there are only two international transaction that take place in a given period, but let’s assume that those two transactions are representative of ...

This might be more of interest to the economics wonks than the technical ones but we have a nice little illustration here of one of the central tenets of Paul Krugman's "new trade theory" here, the ...

This article is a wonky edition of Paul Krugman’s free newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it. For many of us, Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics — a boutique ...