International Trade, Geography and Specialisation: Empirical Evidence

Marius Brülhart

Département d’Économétrie et d’Économie Politique (DEEP), University of Lausanne

THIS PAGE WAS originally SET UP as a reading list FOR A COURSE I TAUGHT IN SPRING 2001 (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne: DEA in International Economics). BY POPULAR DEMAND, I CONTINUE TO UPDATE REFERENCES SPORADICALLY. Most papers can be downloaded as PDF files from this web site (access is password protected).

Topics
1.    INTRODUCTION
1.1  Theory and Overviews

1.2  Empirics: Overview
2.    DESCRIPTIVES: SPECIALISATION AND TRADE VOLUMES
2.1  Trade Structures
2.2  Sectoral Specialisation / Geographic Concentration
2.3
Geographical Clustering of Firms
2.4  The Gravity Model and Border Effects
2.5
Heterogeneous Firms, FDI and Vertical Specialisation
3.    ANALYTICAL EMPIRICS: TESTING THEORIES
3.1  Regressing Specialisation on its Determinants
3.2  Testing Neoclassical Trade Theory: Leontief, Etc.
3.3  Testing the "New" Trade Theory: The Home-Market Effect, Etc.
4.    POLICY-RELATED ISSUES
4.1  Trade and Wages
4.2  Geography, Productivity and Regional Inequality
4.3
Geography, Agglomeration and Taxes
4.4  Trade and Factor-Market Adjustment