In recent years governments have paid increasing attention to weighing the socioeconomic benefits of regulations against their costs. Rules and regulations governing economic activity are typically formulated with a view to their benefits. Their effects on the costs and inefficiencies, in...

Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- I Introduction -- 1 Arguments for and against Policies to Promote National Champions -- II Analyses in Dynamic Settings -- 2 Some Thoughts on Industrial Policy and Growth -- 3 National Champions and Economic Growth -- 4...

Economists argue that such market-based policy instruments as environmental taxes and emission trading systems are the best way to target the negative effects of pollution. Yet there is no agreement about whether the use of these instruments is sufficient, whether they are deployed efficiently,...

Despite their common roots, international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have developed into two distinct fields of study. Economists have directed their efforts at formalizing the workings of international trade and investment at the macroeconomic level; business scholars have...

Intro -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Institutions and Economic Performance -- 1 On Institutions and Growth -- 2 Financial Institutional Reform, Growth, and Equality -- 3 How Do Institutions Lead Some Countries to Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others? -- 4 Regulation and...