Frank A.G. den Butter explains the importance and means of keeping transaction costs as low as possible. He illustrates how this transaction management can contribute to making firms and nations more competitive by exploiting gains from the division of labour and international fragmentation of...

This up-to-date and informative book provides a comprehensive treatment of the costs of trading across borders and of trade facilitation policies. While traditional tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade have been reduced, international trade continues to involve higher costs in money and time...

Cross-Strait linkages : historical perspective and empirical evidence / Richard C.K. Burdekin, Yijing Shen and Hsin-hui I.H. Whited -- A comparison between the CEPA and the ECFA / Yun-Wing Sung -- Assessing the impacts of the integration of the ICT investments of Taiwan and China upon economic...

1. Introduction -- 2. International fragmentation of production : a survey of theory and the measurement issue -- 3. Production fragmentation and trade patterns in Japanese manufacturing -- 4. Determinants of fragmentation trade -- 5. Structural transformation and labour market adjustment in...

South Africa's leading economists adopt within this volume a sectoral approach in their analysis of the drastic changes that have occurred within the South African economy since 1970. The book illustrates how, despite its sophisticated infrastructure, the South African economy has shared in the...