This book focuses in detail on the analysis of foreign direct investment flows to Latin America and the Caribbean from the vantage point and on the basis of statistical sources from the main investor countries.

This volume discusses frameworks for policies that can help offset the polarizing effects that may be generated by the asymmetrical distribution of the costs and benefits of integration into the global economy.

The European Union is considered to be the biggest actor in the world economy, because it covers a significant percentage, approximately 20%, of global exports and imports. Thus, knowledge of the provisions of the EU’s common commercial policy is an acute need and a topical issue not only for...

Les traités de préférence commerciale incluent de plus en plus souvent des clauses concernant la démocratie. Cette évolution peut être considérée comme un instrument de promotion de la démocratie mais aussi comme une pré-condition pour accélérer un processus d'intégration...

Until 2006, trade policy of the European Union (EU) had mainly been focused on multilateralism embraced by the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). Meanwhile, the EU maintained an effective suspension on the opening of bilateral or regional negotiations where their increasing number was considered a...

This purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of exchange rate risk in the value of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. In order to value a bilateral trade agreement we initially consider a firm that must sell al its output in the local market. Then, we assume that the country in...

The European Union is considered to be the biggest actor in the world economy, because it covers a significant percentage, approximately 20%, of global exports and imports. Thus, knowledge of the provisions of the EU’s common commercial policy is an acute need and a topical issue not only for...

This book focuses in detail on the analysis of foreign direct investment flows to Latin America and the Caribbean from the vantage point and on the basis of statistical sources from the main investor countries.

This volume discusses frameworks for policies that can help offset the polarizing effects that may be generated by the asymmetrical distribution of the costs and benefits of integration into the global economy.

In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could...