Causes of Changes in the Structure of International Trade, 1960-85: Papers of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the International Economics Study Gro

This is a compilation of international papers, presented at the annual conference of the organization which was formed in 1973 to provide a forum in which professional economists with an interest in international economics could discuss developments in their field. Its basic orientation is towards the theoretical aspects of the subject, but applied questions are also discussed at meetings. The group is currently administered through the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The object of this volume is to explore the reasons for changes in the patterns of exports and imports and the roles of major groups of countries in trade. There are contributions on changes in trade theory; the effects of trade policies; intra-industry trade; the growth of developing country exports, expecially from newly industrialized countries; obstacles to developing country exports; theories of specialization and the effects of unions of innovations and trade.