This study adds to the understanding of China's innovation prospects by examining how variations in institutional quality within China impact on the R&D efforts of firms located in different provincial regions. In the process of identifying the effect of institutional quality, the roles of other...

Australia's principal container ports, located in its state capitals, are owned and operated by state authorities that largely return profits from port operations to state governments. Since they govern the volumes of trade in most merchandise, they command immense influence over the openness...

As debt work-outs facilitate recovery from Asia'a recession, GDP there can be expected to rise and manufactured exports to expand. Asian imports and investment will remain low, however, as crisis-enhanced foreign debt is serviced and domestic savings continue to be sent abroad. Superficially,...

This paper adapts a more general yet standard global model to investigate international effects of wage regulation and of the Asian emergence. The Davis result that European unemployment raises the wage in the US is supported, though the generalisations in our model greatly weaken it. By...

Economic growth and trade liberalization since the 1970s have led to rapid growth in exports from many developing countries. The link between this expansion and the tendancy for wage dispersion in the older industrial countries is explored in this paper using global general equilibrium analysis.