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International trade is the core foundation of globalisation. This current and up-to-date volume brings together the finest academics working in the field today, containing contributions in key areas of policy research, such as, modelling frameworks, trade policy, trade and migration, trade and the environment, trade and unemployment.

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The Palgrave Handbook of International Trade comprises twenty accessible, authoritative and up-to-date surveys of the major topics in international trade. The surveys are written by leading scholars and each is a balance between core knowledge and recent research.
The Handbook, which was written to support the teaching of international trade at the graduate entry level, provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant material in a single volume and includes work not yet found in textbooks. Topics include trade theory and policy, testing trade theories, imperfect competition, heterogenous firms, multinational firms, the political economy of trade policy, the measurement of trade policy, preferential trading arrangements, trade and labour markets, migration, economic geography, the gravity model, computable general equilibrium models, development and growth.
The Handbook is a valuable source for professional economists, graduate students and researchers in international trade.

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PART I: FOUNDATIONS AND MODELLING FRAMEWORKS Editorial Overview International Trade in the Long Run; R.Ruffin General Equilibrium Trade Theory; A.Woodland The Empirics of General Equilibrium Trade Theory; D.Bernhofen General Equilibrium Trade Theory and Firm Behaviour; G.Ottaviano & K.Behrens Firms´ Internationalization Strategies: The Evidence; D.Greenaway, R.Kneller & D.McGowan Oligopoly and Trade; D.Leahy & P.Neary Multinational Firms; J.Markusen PART II: POLICY Theory of Trade Policy and Reform; R.Falvey & U.Kreickemeier Political Economy of Protection; B.Ethier Measurement of Protection; J.Anderson On the Theory and Empirics of Preferential Trade Agreements; P.Krishna Trade Agreements; C. Kowalczyk & R.Riezman PART III: SPECIAL TOPICS Trade and Labour Markets; C.Davidson & S.Matusz Trade and the Environment; B.Copeland Economic Geography: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature; S.Redding Gravity Equations and Economic Frictions in the World Economy; J.Bergstrand & P.Egger Computational General Equilibrium Modeling of International Trade; J.Francois & W.Martin Trade and Economic Growth; P.Segerstrom Trade, Trade Policyand Development; C.Milner International Migration; N. Gaston & D.Nelson

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