JAMES R. MARKUSEN

Professor of International Economics

Selected Publications:

“Teaching the Locals New Tricks: Foreign Experts as a Source of Productivity Transfer” (with Natalia Trofimenko), Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming 2008 or early 2009.

“Adapting the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise to Trade and Investment in Business Services” (with Bridget Strand), World Economy, forthcoming 2009.

“Sub-national Differentiation and the Role of the Firm in Optimal International Pricing”(with Edward Balistreri), Economic Modeling, forthcoming, 2009.

“Interacting Factor Endowments and Trade Costs: A Multi-Country Approach to Factor-Proportions Trade Theory” (with Anthony Venables), Journal of International Economics 73 (2007), 333-354.

“Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment” (with Karolina Ekholm and Rikard Forslid), Journal of the European Economic Association 5 (2007), 776-795.

“Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Producer Services and the Market for Domestic Expertise” (with Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr), Canadian Journal of Economics 38 (2005), 758-777.

Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

“Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise” (with David Carr and Keith Maskus), American Economic Review 91 (2001), 693-708.

“Contracts, Intellectual Property Rights and Multinational Investment in Developing Countries”, Journal of International Economics 53 (2001), 189-204.

"Using the Gravity Equation to Differentiate among Alternative Theories of Trade" (with Robert Feenstra and Andrew Rose), Canadian Journal of Economics 34 (2001), 430-447.

“The Theory of Endowment, Intra-Industry, and Multinational Trade” (with Anthony Venables), Journal of International Economics 52 (2000), 209-234.

“Foreign Direct Investment as a Catalyst for Industrial Development” (with Anthony Venables), European Economic Review 43 (1999), 335-356.

“Multinational Firms and the New Trade Theory” (with Anthony Venables), Journal of International Economics 46 (1998), 183-204.

“Exploring New Markets: Direct Investment, Contractual Relations, and the Multinational Enterprise” (with Ignatius Horstmann), International Economic Review 37 (1996), 1-20.

“Multinationals, Technical Diffusion, and Trade” (with Wilfred Ethier), Journal of International Economics 41 (1996), 1-28.

“The Boundaries of Multinational Enterprises and the Theory of International Trade,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (1995), 169-189.

“Incorporating the Multinational Enterprise into the Theory of International Trade,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (1995), 169-189.

“Accounting for Growth with New Inputs: A Monopolistic Competition Approach” (with Robert Feenstra), International Economic Review 35 (1994), 429-447.

“Competition in Regional Environmental Policies with Endogenous Plant Location Decisions” (with Edward Morey and Nancy Olewiler), Journal of Public Economics 56 (1995), 55-77.

“Endogenous Market Structures in International Trade” (with Ignatius Horstmann), Journal of International Economics, 32 (1992), 109-129.

“Explaining the Volume of North-South Trade” (with Randall Wigle), Economic Journal 100 (1990), 1206-1215.

“Trade in Producer Services and in other Specialized, Intermediate Inputs,” American Economic Review, 79 (1989), 85-95.

“Nash Equilibrium Tariffs for the US and Canada: The Roles of Country Size, Scale Economies, and Capital Mobility” (with Randall Wigle), Journal of Political Economy, 97 (1989), 368-386.

“Trade Policy with Increasing Returns and Imperfect Competition: Contradictory Results from Competing Assumptions” (with Anthony Venables), Journal of International Economics, 24 (1988), 299-316.

“Explaining the Volume of Trade: an Eclectic Approach,” American Economics Review, 76 (1986), 1002-1011.

“Up the Average Cost Curve: Inefficient Entry and the New Protectionism” (with Ignatius Horstmann), Journal of International Economics, 20 (1986), 225-248.

"Trade in Goods and Factors with International Differences in Technology" (with Lars Svensson), International Economic Review 26 (1985), 175-192.

"Paying for Public Inputs" (with Richard Manning, John McMillan), American Economic Review 75 (1985), 228 234.

"A Rehabilitation of Absolute Advantage" (with Glenn MacDonald), Journal of Political Economy 93 (1985), 277-297.

"Multinationals, Multi-Plant Economies, and the Gains from Trade," Journal of International Economics 16 (1984), 205-226.

"Factor Movements and Commodity Trade as Complements," Journal of International Economics 14 (1983), 341-356.

"Trade and the Gains from Trade with Imperfect Competition," Journal of International Economics 11 (1981), 531-551.