Market integration, regionalism and the global economy
By: edited by Richard Baldwin ... [et al.]
Contributors: Baldwin, Richard E.; Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: International economic integration -- Congresses; Regionalism -- Congresses; International economic relations -- Congresses; Free trade -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: A study of the nature and the policy implication of changes in the global economy in relationship to the process of regional integration, conducted using the newest techniques of economic analysis.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference organized by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and held in La Coruña, Apr. 26, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richrd Baldwin, [et al.] ...; title: Regionalism vs. multilateralism / L. Alan Winters; title: Preferential agreements and the multilateral trading system / Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger; title: Politics and trade policy / Elhanan Helpman; title: Globalisation and labor, or: if globalisation is a bowl of cherries, why are there so many glum faces around the table? / Dani Rodrik; title: Openness and wage inequality in developing countries: the Latin American challenge to East Asian conventional wisdom / Adrian Wood; title: Operationalising the theory of optimum currency areas / Tamin Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen; title: European migrants: an endangered species? / Riccardo Faini; title: Geography and specialisation: industrial belts on a circular plain / Anthony J. Venables; title: Convergence: an overview / Giuseppe Bertola; title: Convergence as distribution dynamics (with or without growth) / Danny T. Quah.