Car prices in Europe are characterized by large and persistent differences acrosscountries. The purpose of this paper is to document and explain this price dispersion..

[...]Although the overall effects of the Asia crisis on the UnitedStates were modest, they could have obscured other, largereffects in particularly vulnerable U.S. industries. Accordingly,this article looks beyond the aggregate data associated with thecrisis and instead focuses on these...

This present paper focuses on the diffusion of wu-wei (an ancient Chinese concept of political economy) throughout Europe, between 1648 and 1848. It argues that at the core of this diffusion process were three major developments; firstly the importation and active transmission of wu-wei by the...