K Wong - 1995 - mitpress.mit.edu
This up-to-date synthesis of the basic tools and survey results in international trade theory is
unique in giving factor mobility equal billing with goods trade, highlighting factor flows in the
context of a mainstream approach to trade theory.
K Wong - Journal of International Economics, 1986 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper analyzes whether factor flows and commodity trade are substitutes or
complements, ie whether increasing the level of one impacts adversely or favorably on the
volume of the. other. It derives, with the aid of a new general equilibrium framework of the ...
K Wong… - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2004 - i3.makcdn.com
Abstract This paper constructs a two-sector overlapping-generations model of endogenous
growth to study the effects of brain drain on growth, education and income distribution. It is
shown that brain drain reduces the economic growth rate and generally hurts the non- ...
KY Wong - Journal of International Economics, 1983 - ideas.repec.org
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NV Long… - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1996 - ideas.repec.org
Economists have long been interested in searching for the causes and effects of the growth
of income and wealth of countries. The relevant literature gradually was divided nto two
banches: economic growth and development economics, with the former emphasizing the ...
KY Wong - Japanese Economic Review, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explains with a simple model the collapse of the housing market in Thailand
before the 1997 economic crisis. It shows that successive periods of impressive growth of
the economy created not only higher demands for housing, but also an increase in ...
S Lahiri, P Raimondos-Møller, K Wong… - Journal of Development …, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the optimal choice of foreign aid when trade policies are decided in
a non-cooperative fashion. Three alternative scenarios, depending on the timing of the
actions and on whether aid is tied, are analyzed. It is shown that, in the case where aid is ...
EL Grinols… - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1991 - JSTOR
This paper develops a measure of the change in welfare of a household or an economy due
to exogenous shocks or policy changes. The measure can be applied in a wide range of
economies, including those without distortions, and those with distortions due to ...
K Wong - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1986 - JSTOR
This note examines and extends the following two propositions: that finite international factor
movements are beneficial to the nationals of the destination country but detrimental to those
left behind in the source country and that marginal movements do not have such welfare ...
JN Bhagwati, KW Schatz… - European Economic Review, 1984 - Elsevier
The paper analyzes the West German immigration system as operated until early 1970s.
Defining the essential features of this system, the authors explain the cross-sectional
industrywise utilization of foreign guestworkers during 1964/65 to 1971/72. They also ...
[CITATION] International factor mobility and the volume of trade: an empirical study
K Wong - Empirical Methods for International Trade, 1988
B Lockwood… - Journal of International Economics, 2000 - Elsevier
This note argues that when two countries choose optimal tariffs in a trade war, specific tariffs
are not equivalent to ad valorem tariffs even if all markets are competitive. In particular, it
shows that if a country's trading partner switches from a specific tariff to an ad valorem tariff ...
K Wong - Economics & Politics, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the theory of foreign investment has shifted from conventional formulations such
as response to interest rate differentials in the case of capital flows (Mundell, 1958), and
Hymer-style (Hymer, 1960) appropriability explanations in the case of direct foreign ...
YW Sung… - Pacific Economic Review, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The paper focuses on the Hong Kong economy and attempts to measure the contribution of
Hong Kong's integration with mainland China to its GDP growth rate. Two linkages have
received particular attention, namely, Hong Kong's foreign direct investment (FDI) in China ...
K Wong… - Review of International Economics, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, industrialization, and
international trade in a two-sector endogenous growth model. With learning-by-doing, the
economy grows perpetually along a balanced growth path, with manufacturing's relative ...
MC Kemp… - Journal of Development Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper shows that if because of administration costs or other wastes only a
proportion of an aid reaches the recipient, then it is possible that the donor is enriched by its
act of charity, the extent of the enrichment increasing with the extent of the leakage, and/or ...
LK Cheng… - Journal of International Economics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper analyzes the strategies of two governments when choosing between
capital and labor mobility. For each type of factor mobility, the Nash equilibria under both
income taxes and quotas on factor flows are derived. From each country's point of view, an ...
[CITATION] The Asian crisis: what has happened and why?
K Wong - Department of Economics, University of Washington, …, 1998
SC Saxena… - … . edu/karyiu/papers/crisis-sur. pdf ( …, 1999 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract: This survey discusses theoretical models of speculative attack and currency crises,
and reviews the empirical evidence. The paper outlines the correspondence of the models
to different cases of crisis (eg Latin American crises, the ERM breakdown, and the recent ...
KY Wong - Defence and Peace Economics, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the trade and military relationship between two countries which have a
common military enemy. The paper explains how the former two countries, which are military
allies and trading partners, share the burden of defence against the third country. It ...
K Wong - Journal of International Economics, 1986 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper analyzes two different ways of allowing foreign capital inflow:
introducing it into the domestic economy and introducing it into a duty-free zone. It shows
how the ranking of the two policies depends on the production patterns in the duty-free ...
E Dinopoulos… - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1990 - ideas.repec.org
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WL Chou… - Pacific Economic Review, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This paper estimates the major factors of growth of Hong Kong using a fairly new approach,
which allows the direct inclusion of the factors of growth in the growth equation to be
estimated. The growth factors that are found to be important for Hong Kong are physical ...
MC Kemp… - Economic Theory, 1995 - Springer
Summary This paper examines the welfare effects of international trade in a context of
overlapping generations. It shows that, for a single trading country, uncompensated free
trade may be Pareto inferior to autarky. However, for each government there are ...
BS Jensen… - 1998 - books.google.com
While endogenous growth theory has claimed success in modeling various factors of growth
and providing an analysis of sustainable economic growth, most of the growth models in
published work are for closed economies. The omission of international trade, which is ...
KY Wong - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1990 - econpapers.repec.org
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K Wong - Journal of International Economics, 1991 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper applies the compensation principle to compare the welfare levels of a
small, many-household open economy in different trade situations. Two types of trade
situations, free and restricted trade, and two types of compensation schemes, lump-sum ...
K Wong - Journal of the Korean Economy, 2000 - karyiuwong.com
Abstract In this paper we try to analyze the link between some industrial policies in South
Korea and the 1997 financial crisis. We argue that while the industrial policies have greatly
promoted the development of many local industries, they also have encouraged local ...
KY Wong - Pacific Economic Review, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes a model of two-way movement of physical capital, and examines the
effects of direct investment liberalization on resource allocation, income distribution and
commodity trade. If either country or both countries liberalizes investment under ...
KY Wong - Journal of Macroeconomics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper determines the effects of price deregulation and analyzes the theoretical
relationship between price increases, corruption, and income distribution. Price deregulation
does not necessarily cause a jump in the general price level, but partial price deregulation ...
K Wong - China Economic Review, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes China's foreign trade with Southeast Asia and the United States. Using
a simple three-country, four-good framework, this paper examines how trade liberalization
by China, which is one of the conditions for China's accession into the World Trade ...
K Wong - Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of …, 1996 - ideas.repec.org
The present paper raises and analyzes two new issues that so far have received vey little
attention in the literature. The first one is the relation between economic growth and
internation laboe market. The second is how workers choose the limiting and lenght of ...
[CITATION] International trade in goods and factor mobility
K Wong, EL Grinols - Journal of …, 1997 - Nashville [etc.]: American Economic …
K Wong - Journal of Economic Theory, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper analyzes the possibility of factor intensity reversal (FIR) in a multifactor,
two-good economy with fixed factor endowments. Sufficient conditions under which the
factor-intensity ranking of the two sectors remains unchanged at all factor and commodity ...
J Lee… - The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper examines the use of strategic trade policies, such as export subsidies, to
encourage domestic production of an intermediate input and a final product in a model with
international rivalry between firms in two countries. The choice of subsidies or taxes in ...
[CITATION] International labor migration
K Wong - Chapter, 1995
[CITATION] The Japanese challenge: Japanese direct investment in the United States
KY Wong - Japanese Investment in the United States: Should We …, 1989
K Wong - The Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 1996 - JSTOR
In 1969 Herberg and Kemp published a famous proposition about the curvature of the
production possibility frontier (PPF) of an economy under variable returns to scale. It states
that'if joint production is ruled out, if each production function is homothetic and if some ...
[CITATION] National defense and foreign trade: the sweet and sour relationship between the United States and Japan
K Wong - Sharing World Leadership, 1989
SC Saxena… - 2002 - faculty.washington.edu
The 1997 Asian financial crisis shook the world, which did not seem to be prepared for such
kind of troubles in that region at that time. The crisis was unprecedented, for several
reasons. First, it happened quite quickly. The baht was devalued and allowed to float in ...
K Wong - Papers Presented in the Conference in Honor of J. …, 2005 - cgu.edu
Abstract This paper analyzes and compares the effects of two policy options of regional
economic integration for two countries that have firms producing similar products and selling
them to a third country. One option is to form an free trade area (FTA) with the third country ...
K Wong - 국제무역과 항만물류 거점화전략, 167~ 180 쪽 (총 14 쪽 …, 2004 - dbpia.co.kr
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내용을 보증하거나 책임을 지지 않습니다. 단, 누리미디어에서 제공되는 서지정보는 저작권법에
의해 보호를 받는 저작물로, 사전 허락 없이 임의로 대량 수집하거나 프로그램에 의한 주기적 ...
K Shimomura… - Unpublished working paper, July, 2001 - Citeseer
Abstract We examine in a dyanmic model how a firm determines the optimal level of
innovation, and how a firm chooses between innovation and imitation. This paper considers
a local firm, which is competing with a foreign, more productive, firm in terms of quantity, ...
PC Liao… - Southern Economic Journal, 2006 - JSTOR
This paper examines the noncooperative interactions between two exporting countries and
one importing country when all of them are seeking the optimal policies to improve their
welfare. Whereas the importing country has the incentive to impose tariffs on the goods ...
K Wong… - Increasing returns and economic analysis, 1998 - books.google.com
The Dixit-Stiglitz model (1977, hereafter DS model) formalizes a tradeoff between
economies of scale and consumption diversity. Since an increase in the size of an economy
in the DS model enlarges agents' scope for trading off economies of scale for consumption ...
NV Long… - Review of International Economics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how two geographically separated ports compete for a market
consisting of manufacturing firms located between them. There is a service firm in each port,
and these two firms, taking the infrastructure provided by their governments as given, ...
KY Wong - Japanese Economic Review, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyses the use of lump-sum compensation to ensure a Pareto improvement
under free trade. It first shows how households, which are aware of the free-trade and
compensation policy, may falsify autarkic consumption to get larger transfers. Despite ...
W Kar-yiu - Journal of environmental economics and management, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper argues that the structure of the government in the former Soviet Union
and the present Russia has led to inefficiency in harvesting non-renewable resources such
as timber. It analyzes the dynamic optimization problems of the central and local ...
K Wong - 2000 - karyiuwong.com
1Department of Economics, Box 353330, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-
3330, USA; Tel. 1-206-685-1859; Fax: 1-206-685-7477; e-mail: karyiu@u.washington.edu;
http://faculty.washington.edu/karyiu/ ... This paper introduces some basic features of ...
K Shimomura… - Review of International Economics, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract This paper derives sufficient conditions under which the Law of Comparative
Advantage and the General Law of Comparative Advantage are true when the preferences
of the trading countries may not be represented by “well-behaved” social utility functions. It ...
K Wong - 2000 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract This paper analyzes international trade in goods and capital movement in the basic
model of external economies of scale developed in Wong (2000b). It is shown that
externality, even if it is a mild one, can have important implications on goods trade and ...
PC Liao… - Japan and the World Economy, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the competition in technology and production between a firm in the
North (developed country) and a firm in the South (developing country), and how such
competition may be affected by the North's subsidy on technology improvement and the ...
The post-war economy of the world is characterized by liberalization of many of the
restrictions imposed by the governments on the movements of goods and capital across
countries. Through several rounds of multilateral trade negotiations, regional cooperation, ...
PC Liao… - WTO and World Trade, 2005 - Springer
The use of strategic trade policy to promote trade has been proven to be disruptive in world
trade. One of the achievements of the GATT and the WTO is to prohibit the use of subsidies
to promote trade performance of domestic firms, and it regulates the actions countries can ...
W Kar-yiu - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2001 - econpapers.repec.org
By Wong, Kar-yiu; Introduction to the Symposium: Greater China and the World Economy.
Y Chen… - Proceedings of Asian Crisis V: New …, 2003 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract This paper uses the multivariate Asymmetric Power ARCH model developed by
Ding et al.(1993) to investigate the five major ASEAN stock markets in the period from 1996
to 1999, which includes the period of the Asian economic crisis in 1997. Traditionally, a ...
[CITATION] International Trade and International Capital Movement in the Presence of Production Externality
K Wong - 2001 - International Exchange Committee, …
[CITATION] Revenue Constraints and Choice of Export Subsidy Policy
H Hwang, K Miyagiwa… - Journal of Economic Integration, 1997
K Wong - 2000 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper examines the validity of the five fundamental theorems of international
trade and some other issues in a general model of externality. The model allows the
possibility of own-sector externality and cross-sector externality. This paper derives ...
K Wong… - unpublished paper, 2001 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract In this paper, we provide a theory to explain why a multinational corporation and a
local firm choose to form an international joint venture (IJV) and why they decide to dissolve
it sometime later. Our theory has two important features: moral hazard and technology ...
K Wong - 2000 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract This paper examines the validity of the five fundamental theorems in the positive
theory of international trade in a basic model of external economies of scale. It shows that
some of these theorems are valid in more cases than the literature suggests. In particular, ...
[CITATION] The Economics of Currency Crisis and Capital Control: A Survey
SC Saxena… - 2000 - Mimeo., University of Washington
N Bruce… - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1996 - Springer
When insurance firms can monitor with non-prohibitive costs the consumption of risk-
influencing goods by an insured, they have incentives to tax-subsidize the insured's
consumption of the goods. If the government cannot monitor at a lower cost than private ...
[CITATION] The Asian Crisis: What happened and why?
K Wong - 1998 - mimeo, University of Washington, …
[CITATION] Are international capital mobility and international labor migration substitutes
K Wong - Presentado en la Conferencia de Kiel junio, 2004
S Saxena… - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1999 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] International Trade in Goods and Factor Mobility, 1995
K Wong - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass
T Yeo, YM Yoon… - The Korean economy: post-crisis …, 2004 - books.google.com
Since the government adopted aggressive promotion polices in the 1960s, the growth of the
Korean economy has been phenomenal. From 1971 to 1990, the economy grew at an
annual average rate of 8.1 per cent. 1 Such an impressive growth of the economy, which ...
[CITATION] Northeast Asian Economic Integration: An Analysis of the Trade Relations among Korea, China, and Japan
K Wong, Y Taek-dong, Y Young-man… - Northeast Asian Economic …, 2004
[CITATION] Quid Pre Quo Fereign Investment and Government Intervention,"
E Dinopoulos… - K. Koekkoek and C. lvlennes (eds.), Xnternationa2 …, 1991
[CITATION] The Protectionist threat and quid pro quo Foreign Investment: Theory and Policy Implications
K Wong - University of Washington, Unpublished Manuscript, 1987
H Hwang,
K Miyagiwa… - Discussion Papers in …, 1993 - ideas.repec.org
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LK Cheng… - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1997 - JSTOR
In this paper we analyse the optimal policies of two active countries towards international
movement of both labour and capital in a two-stage non-cooperative game. We show that a
complete buy-out of both factors by either country can never be a Nash equilibrium, ...
KY Wong… - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1995 - econpapers.repec.org
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[CITATION] International Trade in Goods and Capital Mobility
W Kar-yiu - 1995 - MIT Press
K Wong… - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1998 - ideas.repec.org
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G Heiduk… - 2005 - books.google.com
World trade is not only an economic but also a social, political, environmental, labor and
legal matter. Economists and government planners aim at finding the efficient trade policy
which enhances economic welfare and growth in a more harmonious and sustainable ...
K Wong… - Review of International Economics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... The Asian Crisis, 1997. Kar-yiu Wong 1 ,; Richard YK Ho 2. Article first published online: 17 DEC
2002. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9396.00311. Issue. Review of International Economics. Volume 10,
Issue 1, page 1, February 2002. Additional Information. How to Cite. ...
[CITATION] Eastern Europe: Trade, Capital Imports, or Migration
AO Krueger… - Migration--a challenge for Europe: symposium 1993, 1994 - Mohr
K Wong - 2001 - karyiuwong.com
Abstract This paper challenges the current view in the economics literature that J. Tinbergen
was wrong in drawing the production possibility frontier (PPF) of an economy strictly convex
(concave) to the origin when the output of a decreasing-returns (increasing-returns) sector ...
HY Chan… - University of Washington.—http://faculty …, 2003 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract This paper examines how two international firms compete non-cooperatively by
choosing domestic sale, export, and overseas investment, and investigates conditions for
the existence of simultaneous intraindustry trade and intraindustry investment. The roles of ...
J Lee… - Unpublished manuscript, University of …, 2003 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract This paper examines the roles of over-investment, over-production, and
overborrowing of firms in the financial crisis in Korea in 1997. Herding or group effect has
been used to explain how over-investment may occur even when all firms are rational. ...
Y Ichino… - 2001 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract We consider a public-good problem among import-competing firms to seek
protection. First, we point out that under an administered protection policy, the quantity
produced by the firms is a protection-seeking effort. We show that, in spite of the public- ...
E Parker… - China Economic Review, 2003 - econpapers.repec.org
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China, and the Asian economies. Elliott Parker () and Kar-yiu Wong. China Economic Review,
2003, vol. 14, issue 3, pages 203-205. Date: 2003 Track citations by RSS feed. ...
PC Liao… - 2003 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the competition in technology and production between a
firm in the North (developed country) and a firm in the South (developing country), and how
such competition may be affected by North's subsidy on technology improvement and ...
[CITATION] A Pure Theory of International Factor Mobility
K Wong - 1983 - University of Washington
S Lahiri, P Raimondos-Møller, K Wong… - 1997 - econ.ku.dk
Abstract This paper investigates the optimality of international income transfers in a two
country model in which each country engages in non cooperative trade policy be haviour. It
is shown that unconditional income transfers can never be optimal for the donor country, ...
K Wong - Labor Mobility and the World Economy, 2006 - Springer
This paper examines the relationship between international capital movement (ICM) and
international labor movement (ILM). Considering two economies that have identical
technologies and factor endowment ratios but different sizes, this paper investigates ...
KY Wong - Japanese Economic Review, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The Asian crisis that shocked the world began officially on 2 July 1997 when Thailand stopped
defending the baht. This occurred after a long period during which the country had been hit by
capital flight and speculative attacks. Soon after the event, many neighbouring countries ...
KY Wong - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1990 - econpapers.repec.org
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NATIONAL WELFARE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY. Kar-Yiu Wong (). ...
N Bruce… - Discussion Papers in Economics at the …, 1991 - econpapers.repec.org
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[CITATION] Duty-free Zone and the Locations of Foreign Investment
K Wong… - 1983 - University of Washington, …
KY Wong… - Working Papers, 1988 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Factor mobility and trade flows
K Wong - 1983 - Columbia University
J Cheong… - 2010 - rcie-cn.org
Abstract This paper examines the roles of regionalism in the possible movement to global
free trade (GFT). It argues that whether regionalism is a building block or is a stumbling
block to reaching GFT depends on the technologies, preferences, endowments, and other ...
[CITATION] Labor Migrations, temporary and permanent
DD Gastarbeitersystem, K Wong… - 1995
RA Stegemann, A Professors, RW Parks… - gol.com
European integration is not new. Since the time of Julius Caesar (100-50 BC) Europe has
been the object of historical conquest. In the 9th century Charles the Great extended the
Holy Roman Empire across Central Europe. A millennium later under the reign of ...
KH Chu… - 2008 - emeraldinsight.com
Purpose–The purpose of this chapter is to examine the issues of outsourcing and
corresponding policy interventions by the government. Design/methodology/approach–This
chapter begins with a situation in which no government interventions are allowed, and ...
KC Fung, K Wong… - 1998 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Hong Kong is often perceived to be a pure model of unilateral free trade. We argue
here that in a era when services are internationally tradable and when Hong Kong has
become mainly a service economy, this perception is not entirely true. Nonetheless, Hong ...
J Cheong… - 2007 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract This paper examines how the volume of trade diverted from a non-member country
to a member country during the formation of a new free trade area may be related to the
welfare of a member country. The relation is analyzed in the presence of two types of trade ...
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