Three essays on international trade

• Main Author: Lin, Yih-ming
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01.01.2005
• Subjects: Arbitrage; Commodities; Consumers; Consumption; Costs; Datasets; Developing countries; Economic growth; Economic theory; Economics; Economies of scale; Equilibrium; Essays; Externality; Free trade; GDP; Global economy; Gross Domestic Product; Hypotheses; Infrastructure; Innovations; Intellectual Property; International trade; LDCs; Monopolistic competition; Per capita; Preferences; Ratios; Technological change; Terms of trade; Utility functions

This dissertation contains three essays. In the first essay, we consider nontraded goods as an important impact on bilateral trade flows. A testable gravity equation is derived and a simple example is demonstrated. A sample of 1995 including 118 countries is examined. The results show that evidence...