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Book Synopsis Brookings Trade Forum: 2001 by : Susan M. Collins
Download or read book Brookings Trade Forum: 2001 written by Susan M. Collins and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The fourth edition focuses on the issues and implications of globalization. Contents include: "Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility" Robert P. Flood (International Monetary Fund) and Nancy Marion (Dartmouth College) "The Impossible Duo? Globalization and Monetary Independence in Emerging Markets" Andrés Velasco (Harvard University) "The Adoption of International Labor Standards Conventions: Who, When, and Why?" Nancy H. Chau and Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University) "The Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preferences: International Survey Evidence" Kevin O'Rourke and Richard Sinnott (Trinity College, Dublin) "Borders, Trade, and Welfare" James E. Anderson (Boston College) and Eric van Wincoop (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms Gordon Hanson (University of Michigan), Raymond J. Mataloni Jr. (BEA), and Matthew J. Slaughter (Dartmouth College) 2002, 6 x 9, 300 pp. paper, 0-8157-1575-7, $24.95 / £18.50 (ISSN 1520-5479)
Book Synopsis Brookings Trade Forum: 2006 by : Susan M. Collins
Download or read book Brookings Trade Forum: 2006 written by Susan M. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive analysis on emerging issues of international trade and economics. This volume focuses on the topic of labor markets.
Download or read book Trade Cooperation written by Andreas Dür and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of original essays describes preferential trade agreements, explains why they have spread and explores their effects.
Book Synopsis Understanding Global Trade by : Elhanan Helpman
Download or read book Understanding Global Trade written by Elhanan Helpman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it contains no equations, it is almost mathematical in its elegance, precision, and power of expression. Understanding Global Trade provides a thorough explanation of what shapes the international organization of production and distribution and the resulting trade flows. It reviews the evolution of knowledge in this field from Adam Smith to today as a process of theoretical modeling, accumulation of new empirical data, and then revision of analytical frameworks in response to evidence and changing circumstances. It explains the sources of comparative advantage and how they lead countries to specialize in making products which they then sell to other countries. While foreign trade contributes to the overall welfare of a nation, it also creates winners and losers, and Helpman describes mechanisms through which trade affects a country's income distribution. The book provides a clear and original account of the revolutions in trade theory of the 1980s and the most recent decade. It shows how scholars shifted the analysis of trade flows from the sectoral level to the business-firm level, to elucidate the growing roles of multinational corporations, offshoring, and outsourcing in the international division of labor. Helpman’s explanation of the latest research findings is essential for an understanding of world affairs.
Book Synopsis The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the Americas by : Achim Hurrelmann
Download or read book The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the Americas written by Achim Hurrelmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on cutting-edge research, this edited volume examines how citizens and political elites perceive the legitimacy of regional integration in Europe and the Americas. It analyses public opinion and political discourse on the EU, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, arguing that legitimation patterns shape the development of regional governance.
Book Synopsis Diplomacy and International Business by : Dr. Dimitrios P. Kamsaris
Download or read book Diplomacy and International Business written by Dr. Dimitrios P. Kamsaris and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International business and globalization requires governments to operate in a context different than before, which is to integrate other participants of diplomacy in its own decision-making processes. Governments have been focusing on new strategies, such as involving ministries and non-state actors and institutions, providing greater transparency, and acting collectively. Facing the challenges of an increasingly complex world Diplomats are not the only actors involved in the diplomatic process because due to globalization, many actors such as NGOs, international organizations and individuals can be seen practicing diplomacy. Diplomacy is a course of actions, based on the exchange of ideas, values and traditions to reinforce the business relationships, improve the social cooperation and stimulate the national interests, with respects to globalization. Diplomacy, due to globalization the mass communication technology help access between people to promote peace & stability all over the world because it influences the opinion globally of businesses, trade, individuals, communities, cultures and countries (Kamsaris, 2020). The tactics to form international relations can be described either hard or soft power and according to Nye soft power is the ability to persuade and get what you want through culture, values and ideas through attraction rather than coercion or payments, while hard power involves activating forces. Through soft power, the use of cultural diplomacy becomes significant (Kamsaris, 2020). Regarding the international business world, the will and ability to appreciate and embrace the diverse values and needs of dissimilar cultures is important for the strategic decisions and adopt diplomacy models tactics by increasing social awareness of international companies engaged in the development of culturally sensitive marketing plans and campaigns in order to build positive public opinion, form a good image, free of local problems, conduct research regarding the cultural differences of the new country and international companies with local focus (Kamsaris, 2020). Bound states that the internet has created a world where cultures meet and mix and reform easily and constantly and countries are increasingly finding that they need to reaffirm their sovereignty to stop their cultures being swamped or changed by access to other cultural outputs. As Mark says, a state’s international cultural mission now involves a more active role in protecting and developing country culture. A country’s cultural identity needs to be strong and constantly reinforced and revitalised, or it will be flooded and lost. A culture is the set of values which underpins a country and the way that other countries use to understand you. Culture for Ribeiro is a non-threatening, inclusive way of communicating with people. It is powerful because it is universal and is shared as it is a manifestation of human genius and achievement and is charged with symbolic meaning. International relations referred to the study of foreign affairs and political interaction between countries and cover the complex of cultural, economic, legal, military, and political relations of all countries and their populations, actors and international organizations. The goal of this book is to introduce some of the main issues of international politics, such as war and peace, development, regional integration and security, and to familiarize with different ways to conceptualise and analyse these issues. This should allow to make a more confident decision about your own attitude towards particular issues and to analyse these issues more thoroughly, but it should also make you question both your own as well as others’ representations of the world.
Book Synopsis The Turkish Economy in Crisis by : Ziya Onis
Download or read book The Turkish Economy in Crisis written by Ziya Onis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a set of critical perspectives on the economic crises of 2000 and 2001 focusing on both the origins and consequences of the crises. Attention is drawn to the role of domestic actors as well as key external actors such as the International Monetary Fund in precipitating the twin crises.
Book Synopsis Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 by : Jeffrey G. Williamson
Download or read book Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 written by Jeffrey G. Williamson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading authority on economic globalization argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe and its overseas settlements combined with a worldwide revolution in transportation to produce deindustrialization and an antiglobal backlash in industrially lagging poorer countries. In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both the economist and the historian, analyzing its economic impact on industrially lagging poor countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Williamson argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe and their overseas settlements, combined with a worldwide revolution in transportation, created an antiglobal backlash in the periphery, the poorer countries of eastern and southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. During the "first global century," from about 1820 to 1913, and the antiglobal autarkic interwar period from 1914 to 1940, new methods of transportation integrated world commodity markets and caused a boom in trade between the core and the periphery. Rapid productivity growth, which lowered the price of manufactured goods, led to a soaring demand in the core countries for raw materials supplied by the periphery. When the boom turned into bust, after almost a century and a half, the gap in living standards between the core and the periphery was even wider than it had been at the beginning of the cycle. The periphery, argues Williamson, obeyed the laws of motion of the international economy. Synthesizing and summarizing fifteen years of Williamson's pioneering work on globalization, the book documents these laws of motion in the periphery, assesses their distribution and growth consequences, and examines the response of trade policy in these regions.
Book Synopsis Macrofinancial Linkages by : Mr.Christopher W. Crowe
Download or read book Macrofinancial Linkages written by Mr.Christopher W. Crowe and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macrofinancial linkages have long been at the core of the IMF's mandate to oversee the stability of the global financial system. With the advent of the economic crisis, the Fund has drawn on this research in order to contribute to critical debates on the nature of appropriate policy responses at both the national and multilateral levels. The current juncture offers a good opportunity to take stock of this body of research by IMF staff and to share it with a wider audience, particularly since few collections have been published in this area. This volume brings together some of the best writing by IMF economists on macrofinancial issues, and highlights the issues and approaches that have guided IMF thinking in an area that makes up an increasingly important component of the IMF's overall remit. The chapters in the volume fit into three broad themes: financial crises and boom-bust cycles; financial integration, financial liberalization, and economic performance; and policy issues relating to macroeconomic policy and the corporate and financial sectors-including domestic and external financial liberalization.
Book Synopsis Embedding Global Markets by : John G. Ruggie
Download or read book Embedding Global Markets written by John G. Ruggie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruggie introduced the concept of embedded liberalism in a 1982 article that has become one of the most frequently cited sources in the study of international political economy. The concept was intended to convey the manner by which capitalist countries learned to combine the efficiency of markets with the broader values of the community that socially sustainable markets themselves require in order to survive and thrive. Examining the concept and the institutionalized practice of embedded liberalism, this collection provides a survey of the macro patterns in industrialized countries. Leading scholars combine to demonstrate the benefits of embedded liberalism in practice as well as its gradual erosion at national levels, and to analyze public opinion. They provide a better understanding of what embedded liberalism means, why it matters and how to reconstitute it in the context of the global economy. The contributors contextualize the current challenge historically and theoretically so that students, scholars and policy makers alike are reminded of what is at stake and what is required.
Book Synopsis Applied Approaches to Societal Institutions and Economics by : Tohru Naito
Download or read book Applied Approaches to Societal Institutions and Economics written by Tohru Naito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics. They are institutional economics, information economics, environmental economics, international economics, financial economics, industrial organization, public economics, law and economics, and spatial economics. Because the chapters of this book deal with current topics in these categories, they are relevant not only to researchers and graduate students but also to policy makers and entrepreneurs. As there is uncertainty about the global economy, it is necessary to consider optimal, efficient behavior to survive in the confused world. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1 deals with institutional economics, information economics, and related topics, approached through game theory. Part 2 focuses on environmental economics, international economics, and financial economics, through a microeconomic or econometric approach. Finally, Part 3 concentrates on public economics, social security, and related fields, through microeconomics or macroeconomics.
Book Synopsis The Impact of International Trade and FDI on Economic Growth and Technological Change by : Patricia Hofmann
Download or read book The Impact of International Trade and FDI on Economic Growth and Technological Change written by Patricia Hofmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications? Who loses? Who wins? What is the net aggregate welfare effect after an adjustment period? However, two points are rarely taken into consideration: How do globalisation and technological change interact and what are the potential long-run implications for economic growth? This book addresses the interplay of these megatrends. It asks how economic globalisation may affect innovation and technology of individual firms and eventually the growth prospects of countries. Thereby it shows that protectionism not only harms static efficiency but might as well lead to dynamic losses. The book provides a systematic overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the openness-growth nexus and summarises the conceptual problems and important findings of the empirical analyses so far. The theoretical insights are supported by two empirical studies, the first dealing with the innovative behaviour and the “within-multinational” technology transfer of Spanish firms that were acquired by foreign companies and the second analysing productivity growth rate implications from exporting for German manufacturing firms.
Book Synopsis The Internationalisation of Asset Ownership in Europe by : Harry Huizinga
Download or read book The Internationalisation of Asset Ownership in Europe written by Harry Huizinga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough investigation of financial market integration in Europe.
Book Synopsis Partisan Investment in the Global Economy by : Pablo M. Pinto
Download or read book Partisan Investment in the Global Economy written by Pablo M. Pinto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinto develops a partisan theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) arguing that left-wing governments choose policies that allow easier entry by foreign investors more than right-wing governments, and that foreign investors prefer to invest in countries governed by the left. To reach this determination, the book derives the conditions under which investment flows should be expected to affect the relative demand for the services supplied by economic actors in host countries. Based on these expected distributive consequences, a political economy model of the regulation of FDI and changes in investment performance within countries and over time is developed. The theory is tested using both cross-national statistical analysis and two case studies exploring the development of the foreign investment regimes and their performance over the past century in Argentina and South Korea.
Book Synopsis Light the Lamp by : Christopher Charles Findlay
Download or read book Light the Lamp written by Christopher Charles Findlay and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 1. The future of world trade policy -- ch. 2. Evaluating the impact of the WTO information technology agreement. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Some facts on ITA trade. 2.3. The impact of the ITA : a gravity model approach. 2.4. Regression results. 2.5. Conclusions -- 3. Economic analysis and WTO arbitration cases. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. The mandate. 3.3. An economic interpretation of the mandate. 3.4. An economic taxonomy of WTO. 3.5. The role of economists in WTO arbitration cases -- ch. 4. The impact of manufacturing protection on agricultural incentives in Australia. 4.1. Structural changes since 1950. 4.2. Methodology for measuring distortions to incentives. 4.3. Measuring Nominal Rates of Assistance (NRAs). 4.4. NRA estimates and the evolution of policies. 4.5. Prospects for further policy reform. 4.6. Comparison with other high-income countries. 4.7. Conclusion -- ch. 5. India and the global demand for commodities : is there an elephant in the room? 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. India is big but its growth is different. 5.3. Metals. 5.4. Energy. 5.5. Food. 5.6. Conclusion -- ch. 6. Foreign direct investment in China : trends, characteristics and impacts. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Growth trend of FDI inflows in China. 6.3. Characteristics of FDI in China. 6.4. Impact of FDI on China's economy. 6.5. Technology transfer and spillover effects of FDI. 6.6. Conclusion -- ch. 7. The changing patterns of trade and investment in East Asia. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Changing patterns of foreign trade in East Asia. 7.3. Foreign direct investment and foreign trade : increasing role of multinational corporations in international trade. 7.4. Changing policy environment : liberalisation of trade and FDI policies. 7.5. Concluding remarks -- ch. 8. The integration of the electronics sector in ASEAN. 8.1. The electronics sector. 8.2. The electronics sector : ASEAN. 8.3. Challenges to integration. 8.4. The future for the integration of the electronics sector. 8.5. Recommendations -- ch. 9. Regional value chains and Asian regionalism. 9.1. Patterns of development and the emergence of regional value chains in East Asia. 9.2. Regionalism in East Asia. 9.3. Reducing trade costs in East Asia. 9.4. Conclusion -- ch. 10. Recent developments in the literature on foreign direct investment and labour markets. 10.1. Recent theoretical developments in understanding the effects of FDI. 10.2. The recent evidence on the labour market effects of FDI. 10.3. Some final observations -- ch. 11. Competition policy in international airline markets : an agenda and a proposed solution. 11.1. Introduction. 11.2. Mergers and alliances in airline markets. 11.3. Intersection of regional and domestic policies : a trans-Tasman case study. 11.4. Regulatory errors and multiple competition authorities. 11.5. Steps towards a multilateral competition policy for airline markets. 11.6. Summary and conclusions
Book Synopsis Challenges of Globalization by : Andrew Sobel
Download or read book Challenges of Globalization written by Andrew Sobel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization. It will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies.
Book Synopsis Labor Rights and Multinational Production by : Layna Mosley
Download or read book Labor Rights and Multinational Production written by Layna Mosley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. But other types of international production, particularly subcontracting, can engender competitive races to the bottom in labor rights. To test these claims, Mosley presents newly generated measures of collective labor rights, covering a wide range of low- and middle-income nations for the 1985–2002 period. Labor Rights and Multinational Production suggests that the consequences of economic openness for developing countries are highly dependent on foreign firms' modes of entry and, more generally, on the precise way in which each developing country engages the global economy. The book contributes to academic literature in comparative and international political economy, and to public policy debates regarding the effects of globalization.
