Recent Publications
James R. Markusen: recent selected publications
“Regional Specialization: from the geography of industries to the geography of jobs”, Canadian Journal of Economics 57(4) (2024), 1236-1264. Best paper of 2024 award. With Antoine Gervais and Anthony Venables.
"Incorporating theory consistent endogenous markups into applied general-equilibrium models", Journal of Global Economic Analysis 8(2), (2023), 60-99.
"Global Comparative Statics in General Equilibrium: model building from theoretical foundations", Journal of Global Economic Analysis 6(2), (2021), 86-123.
"What do Multinationals Do? The structure of Multinational Firms= International Activities", World Economy 44(12) (2021), 3443-3706. With Ronald B. Davies
"Per-Capital Income and the demand for Skills", Journal of International Economics 123 (2020), article 103306. With Justin Caron and Thibault Fally.
“Learning to Sell in New Markets: A Preliminary Analysis of Market Entry by a Multinational Firm”, Review of International Economics 16 (2018), 1040-1052. With Ignatius J. Horstmann.
"An Alternative Base Case for Modeling Trade and the Global Environment", Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 4(3) (2017), 895-925.
"International Trade Puzzles: a Solution Linking Production and Preferences", Quarterly Journal of Economics 129 (2014), 1501-1552. With Justin Caron and Thibault Fally.
"Outsourcing versus Vertical Integration: Ethier-Markusen meets the Property-Rights Approach", International Journal of Economic Theory 10 (2014), 75-90. With Yiqing Xie.
"Putting Per-Capita Income Back into Trade Theory", Journal of International Economics, 90 (2013), 255-265.
"Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 115 (2013), 292-325. With Nikolaj Malchow Møller and Bertel Schjerning.
"Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples", Journal of International Economics 88 (2013), 262-270.
"International Welfare and Employment Linkages arising from Minimum Wages", International Economic Review 53 (2012), 771-789. With Hartmut Egger and Peter Egger.
"Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital, and the Choice between FDI and Outsourcing", Canadian Journal of Economics 45 (2012), 1-15. With Yongmin Chen and Ignatius Horstmann.
"Teaching the Locals New Tricks: Foreign Experts as a Source of Productivity Transfer", Journal of Development Economics 88 (2009), 120-131. With Natalia Trofimenko.
"Interacting Factor Endowments and Trade Costs: A Multi-Country, Multi-Good Approach to Trade Theory", Journal of International Economics 73 (2007), 333-354. With Anthony Venables.
"Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment", Journal of the European Economic Association 5 (2007), 776-795. With Karolina Ekholm and Rikard Forslid.