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The field of international trade has been a focus of renewed debate for academics and policy-makers alike. The progressive integration of economics at a worldwide level have led to debates surrounding the migration of labor markets, restrictive trade practices, the impact of foreign investment, the role of cooperation through multilateral and regional agreements, and the enforceability of international agreements. This book reviews the new research findings and theoretical developments that have informed these debates, offering a balanced analytical account of American and European experiences, viewpoints, approaches and policy.Written in six parts, the first part examines the determinants of trade patterns, economic location, foreign investment and the interaction between trade and economic growth. The second part deals with strategic policy interventions. The third part examines the role of innovation, skills and contracts in trade and foreign direct investment. The fourth part focuses on trade reform, trade and investment restrictions and economic sanctions. The fifth part tackles the endogenous formation of policy through the interaction between interest groups and the government, block formation and a host of coexisting trade-restricting and -promoting practices. The sixth part focuses on the economics of the World Trade Organisation, cooperative agreements, and their sustainability.Comprehensive in its approach, this book will be of particular interest to graduate students, policymakers, and practitioners with an interest in international trade.

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Author:   The Late Luis A Rivera-Batiz (, McGill University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ,  Maria-Angels Oliva (, ESCP-EAP (European School of Management) and World Economic Forum, Geneva)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.212kg
ISBN:  

9780198297116

ISBN 10:   0198297114
Pages:   732
Publication Date:   08 January 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: International Trade Modeling 1: The Volume and Structure of Trade 2: Intra-Industry Trade 3: Trade Empirics 4: Geography and Location 5: Migration and Foreign Investment 6: Growth, Trade, and FDI Part II: Stratetic Trade, Competition, and Environment 7: Competition and Rivalry 8: Strategies and the Mode of Competition 9: Trade under Asymmetric Information Part III: Innovation, Skills, and Contracts 10: Innovation, Research, and Learning 11: Information and Moral Hazard 12: Networks and Outsourcing Part IV: Liberalization, Protection, and Sanctions 13: Trade Liberalization and Protection 14: Dumping, Market Access, and Sanctions Part V: Trade Politics and Regionalism 15: Trade Politics 16: Preferential Trade Arrangements 17: International Economic Politics Part VI: WTO and International Cooperation 18: The Economics of the WTO 19: Cooperative Agreements

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``is Rivera-Batiz is Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Columbia University, and also teaches at McGill University and the University of Puerto Rico. He has served as consultant with the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank and has extensive consulting experience with private companies. His work has been published in numerous journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, and the Journal of Development Economics. He is co-author, with Francisco-Rivera-Batiz, of International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics (Prentice-Hall) a standard international economics textbook. His research interests focus on international economics, economic growth and finance. Rivera-Batiz holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Maria-Angels Oliva is Assistant Professor of Economics at ESCP-EAP, Paris (European School of Management). She has held positions as post-doctoral researcher at MIT Sloan School of Management, lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, visiting scholar at Columbia University and at the Université de Montreal, and has worked as a consultant for the International Monetary Fund.

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