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, ...

Use of Tariffs to Resolve a Crisis. The Trump Administration has demonstrated a willingness to apply new tariffs to goods entering the U.S. as a viable tactic under its America First strategy to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those ...

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 ...