International trade—business conducted across national borders—drives GDP and directly and indirectly affects global alliances, globalization, and the economic health of nations. RAND research has examined international trade in contexts as diverse as arms trafficking, the drug trade, international nuclear commerce, trade unions, the U.S.-China trade deficit, and economic investment in the Ukraine.
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Considers the possible development of an independent convertible currency and other foreign exchange and trade policies that can contribute to Hainan's goals of close interaction and integration with the economy of mainland China and with the international economy.
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Re-examines the data from two price surveys conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
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The United States uses various military, diplomatic, and economic means in dealing with the Soviet Union. This Note examines policies toward the Soviets that apply economic suasion by manipulating international trade.
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Lays the theoretical groundwork for estimates of resource flows to the Communist World resulting from Western trade policy.
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Analyzes international arms transfers and indigenous arms production by embedding these activities in a framework of economic, diplomatic, and political incentives and constraints.
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It is argued that a flexible exchange rate system (1) will not require deflation to restore equilibrium to the external balance and therefore not infringe on national autonomy, (2) will not impose increased costs on the foreign trade sector, and (3) ...
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An econometric analysis of criteria for choosing multination trade groupings, in those cases where such groupings are believed to be advantageous. Customarily, these groupings are based on regional criteria that stress geographic proximity as a means...
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Formulates an econometric model of the supply of Colombian coffee to use in estimating how the coffee industry would respond to price incentives to lower production.
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A review of a rigorous example of model building designed to study complex issues of theory and policy. The reviewer gives a brief analysis of Sodersten's method and some of his more interesting results. He commends the book as an addition to the lit...
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The author reviews three books on foreign policy.
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Review of a book: The Soviet Financial System: Its Development and Relations with the Western World, by Mikhail V. Condoide.
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A paper on the nature and significance of the trade agreements of Communist China. The author examines the provisions of the trade agreements, their relation to other international economic agreements, the available but incomplete statistics of the t...
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