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Sustainable cities : diversity, economic growth and social cohesion
Janssens, Madeleine (contributor) - 2009
This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850845
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Industrial agglomeration and new technologies : a global perspective
Tsuji, Masatsugu (contributor);  … - 2007
Agglomeration in Asia -- The relationship between Toyota and its parts suppliers in the age of information and globalization : concentration vs. dispersion / Masatsugu Tsuji -- Iron town cluster : Yawata, its glory, decline and rebirth / Mitsuhiro Kagami -- Information technology and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420058
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Institutions and trade policy
Finger, J. M. - 2002
Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474162
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Handbook of creative cities
Mellander, Chorlotta (contributor);  … - 2011
With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851515
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Promoting competition in global markets : a multi-national approach
Lloyd, Peter John - 1999
This book sheds new light on a major issue on the international trade policy agenda--the promotion and defence of competition in globalizing markets. The authors discuss multi-national approaches to competition policy in the WTO, European Union, the Americas, OECD, UNCTAD and CER. They...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851927
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International economics and confusing politics
Robertson, David - 2006
The IMF, the World Bank and GATT/WTO have had to adapt to changing circumstances in the past 60 years as they guided … the world economy to growing interdependence and prosperity. Now they face several simultaneous challenges. In this book …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420115
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Handbook on international trade policy
Gaisford, James D. (contributor);  … - 2007
The handbook on international trade policy is an insightful and comprehensive reference tool focusing on trade policy issues in the era of globalization. Each specially commissioned chapter deals with important international trade issues, discusses the current literature on the subject, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852105
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Empirical international trade
Bernhofen, Daniel M. - 2010
Kei-Mu Yi (2003), 'Can Vertical Specialization Explain the Growth of World Trade?', Journal of Political Economy, 111 … L. Baier and Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (2001), 'The Growth of World Trade: Tariffs, Transport Costs, and Income Similarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852289
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World Trade Organization, subsidies and countervailing measures
Bacchetta, Marc - 2011
, and Expertise: Causation and Precision in Upland Cotton', World Trade Review, 7 (1), 183-209 -- Gene M. Grossman and …-44 -- John H. Jackson (1997), 'The Perplexities of Subsidies in International Trade', in The World Trading System: Law and Policy … (eds), The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis, Volume II, Chapter 41, New York, NY: Springer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852300
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The economics of pollution havens
Fullerton, Don (ed.) - 2006
A pollution haven may arise if environmental stringency differs between countries, when capital is mobile, and when trade rules allow firms to relocate and still sell their products to the same customers. This cohesive volume analyzes how country characteristics determine environmental rules,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474011