In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

This studyexamines current efforts to deepen trade commitments regarding energy services.

European and American authors discuss the European Community's 1985 far-reaching design for regional integration.

This studyrebuts much of the traditional rationale forregulatory restrictions and provides a list of principles of regulation that would serve as a model for global accounting practices.

The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve only with a renewed commitment to open multilateral trade.

This book considers the three geographical regions that present the greatest intellectual property rights problems to U.S. industries--China, Latin America, and India.

This clear-headed account traces the relationship of the developing countries with the world economy, the factors leading to trade reforms, and the political economy aspects of reform.

This book discusses legalized protectionism in the World Trade Organization and what to do about it.

This book takes a penetrating look at major challenges to the World Trade Organization and the future of trade liberalization.