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General Equilibrium Trade Theory and Firm Behaviour

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What determines countries’ specialization patterns and the structure of world trade? What are the effects of international trade liberalization on national economies? While these have always been the driving questions of international trade theory, the answers have varied through time depending on historical contingencies (Irwin, 1996).

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  1. Department of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada

    Kristian Behrens

  2. CIRPÉE, Canada

    Kristian Behrens

  3. CEPR, UK

    Kristian Behrens & Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

  4. Department of Economics and KITeS, Bocconi University, Italy

    Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

  5. FEEM, Italy

    Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

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  1. American University, USA

    Daniel Bernhofen

  2. Bond University, Australia

    Rod Falvey

  3. University of Nottingham, UK

    David Greenaway

  4. University of Tübingen, Germany

    Udo Kreickemeier

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Behrens, K., Ottaviano, G.I.P. (2013). General Equilibrium Trade Theory and Firm Behaviour. In: Bernhofen, D., Falvey, R., Greenaway, D., Kreickemeier, U. (eds) Palgrave Handbook of International Trade. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-30531-1_5

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