书目名称 | Virtual Trade and Comparative Advantage |
副标题 | The Fourth Dimension |
编辑 | Sugata Marjit,Biswajit Mandal,Noritsugu Nakanishi |
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概述 | Makes it easier to understand theories of competitive trade models to analyze the global phenomenon of offshoring.Explains the occurrence of an all-round increase in productivity and economic growth d |
丛书名称 | Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research |
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描述 | .The main purpose of this book is to expose economics graduate students and researchers to the most significant development in international trade that has taken place in the recent past. Service transactions now make up a sizeable portion of global trade. Trade in both final and intermediate inputs is done virtually through information and communication networks, raising afresh the question of the basis of trade and calling for in-depth investigation. This book succinctly comes up with a relatively new explanation for the basis of trade, thus it adds a new dimension to three existing building blocks: technology, endowment, and returns to scale. ..Against a backdrop of standard Ricardian and Heckscher–Ohlin competitive models of trade, the chapters of this book nicely introduce the issue of communication cost and the difference in time zones between two trading nations. Then follow many intricate phenomena such as informality, skill formation, growth, wage inequality, and decisions regarding foreign direct investment (FDI). However, imperfectly competitive models are not dealt with in great detail as they deserve more space than can be allotted to them here. Given the nonexistence |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | Trade in business services; Comparative advantage; Time zones; Information and communication technology |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3906-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-15-3908-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-15-3906-0Series ISSN 2524-504X Series E-ISSN 2524-5058 |
issn_series | 2524-504X |
copyright | Kobe University 2020 |