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also known as JAMES R. MARKUSEN

economist finance writer

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Many years of work researching multinational firms culminated in a book on the role of multinationals in the international economy, and was published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press in the summer of 2002. While continuing to work on multinationals and the non-rivaled and non-excludable properties of knowledge capital in particular, he has more recently worked on a diverse set of issues including export-platform foreign direct investment, fragmentation and trade at the extensive margin, and selection and learning effects in multinational firms explaining their higher wages.

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- “Multinational Firms and the New Trade Theory” (with Anthony Venables)
- “Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital, and the Choice between FDI and Outsourcing” (with Yongmin Chen and Ignatius Horstmann)
- “Teaching the Locals New Tricks: Foreign Experts as a Source of Productivity Transfer” (with Natalia Trofimenko)
- “Interacting Factor Endowments and Trade Costs: A Multi-Country Approach to Factor-Proportions Trade Theory” (with Anthony Venables)
- “Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples”