Global Competition and Integration

Section I: World Trade and Competition.- 1 A Coming Erosion of Advanced Nations’ Weil-Being from World Trade?.- 2 Free Trade vs. Strategic Trade.- 3 Transport Costs and Patterns of International Trade.- 4 Consequentialism and Procedural Evaluations in Social Welfare Judgements.- 5 On the Efficiency and Stability of Networks.- 6 Expanding the Purchase of a Foreign Intermediate Good.- Section II: Innovation and Growth.- 7 Estimation of Biased Technical Progress.- 8 Imitation and Innovation in Complex Markets.- 9 Hypotheses on Routinization of Innovation.- 10 Technology and Profit under Global Monopolistic Competition.- 11 New Derivation of Conservation Laws.- 12 Productivity Gap and Economic Growth under Increasing Returns.- 13 Environmental Externalities and Growth.- Sction III: Financial Markets and Globalization.- 14 What Happened to Asia?.- 15 International Adjustment under Capital Mobility.- 16 International Factors in the Recessions of the Early Nineties.- 17 Empirical Analyses of Exchange Rate Arrangements.- 18 The Structure of Risks and the Portfolio of Pension Funds.- 19 Emerging Markets in History: The United States, Japan, and Argentina.- Section IV: Regulation, Distribution and the Role of the Government.- 20 Competition in Distribution Channels.- 21 The Deregulation of the Telephone Industry.- 22 Exchange Rates, Retail Prices, and Market Structure.- 23 Population Aging and Dependency Burden.- 24 Nation States and Multinational Business in the Global Reach.