Research Catalog

Title

International economics : theory and policy / Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld.

Author

Krugman, Paul R.

Publication

Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Obstfeld, Maurice.

Description

xxviii, 766, 22 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• International economic relations
• International finance

Note

• Coloured world maps on endpapers, one showing the trade flows with the United States and the other showing the gross national product per capita (in 1993 dollars).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model -- 3. Specific Factors and Income Distribution -- 4. Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model -- 5. The Standard Trade Model -- 6. Economies of Scale, Imperfect Competition, and International Trade -- 7. International Factor Movements -- 8. The Instruments of Trade Policy -- 9. The Political Economy of Trade Policy -- 10. Trade Policy in Developing Countries -- 11. Industrial Policy in Advanced Countries -- 12. National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments -- 13. Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach -- 14. Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates -- 15. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run -- 16. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run -- 17. Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention -- 18. The International Monetary System, 1870-1973 --
• 19. Macroeconomic Policy and Coordination Under Floating Exchange Rates -- 20. Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience -- 21. The Global Capital Market: Performance and Policy Problems -- 22. Developing Countries: Debt, Stabilization, and Reform -- 23. International Economic Problems of Former Communist Countries -- Mathematical Postscripts -- Postscript to Chapter 3: The Specific Factors Model -- Postscript to Chapter 4: The Factor Proportions Model -- Postscript to Chapter 5: The Trading World Economy -- Postscript to Chapter 6: The Monopolistic Competition Model -- Postscript to Chapter 21: Risk Aversion and International Portfolio Diversification.

ISBN

0673524973

LCCN

96025542

OCLC

• 34886635
• ocm34886635

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries