Regional Integration: Experience, Theory and Measurement

ISBN-13: 9780333764602 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 442 str.

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Opis

The book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the theoretical and empirical literature in international economics arising from the proliferation of regional integration schemes in the last four decades. The focus is on the pure theoretical and empirical work in the field, covering all recent developments in theoretical work and measurement techniques in regional integration. The new book fully updates the analysis in the author's very well received The Theory and Measurement of International Economic Integration (1989) to take into account the impact of a further decade of rapid integration around the world. Detailed empirical analysis of the major integration schemes themselves can be found in the author's collection International Economic Integration (1997).

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements General Introduction Experience with Regional Integration PART I: THEORY The Basic Theory of Regional Integration Customs Unions Versus Unilateral Tariff Reduction Customs Unions Versus Free Trade Areas Common Markets and Economic Unions Economic Integration Amongst Developing Nations Macroeconomics of Integration Economic Integration Amongst Centrally Planned Economies Regional Integration and Multilateralism PART II: MEASUREMENT Measuring the Impact of Economic Integration Estimating the Impact of Integration on Manufactures: The Earlier Studies Estimating the Impact of Integration on Manufactures: More Sophisticated Attempts Estimating the Impact of Integration on Manufactures: The Latest Contributions Estimating the Benefits of the Single Market The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union Estimating the Effects of Integration on the Terms of Trade Estimates of the Effects of CMEA Integration Estimates of the Effects of Economic Integration Among the LDCs General Perspective on Measurement Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

O autorze

ALI M. EL-AGRAA is Professor of International Economics and European and American Economics at the University of Fukuoka, Japan. He is Visiting Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, USA and has been granted a Lifetime Academic Citizenship (ie permanent Visiting Professorship) by Wuhan University in China. He has published numerous articles and more than a dozen books. His latest book is The European Union: History, Institutions, Economics and Policies.