In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation.

This volume shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations jeopardizes the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

The importance of the financial policies is more than evident in the context of the nowadays financial crisis. We understand the financial policy as a process of conciliation of the different possible ways to constitute and use monetary funds taking into account their implications for the...

This book critiques U.S. and Taiwanese policies that inhibit trade on their agricultural products.

This studyexamines current efforts to deepen trade commitments regarding energy services.

This study reviews the contents and implications of major trade agreements, as well as the consequences of failing to secure agricultural trade policy reform.

This studyrebuts much of the traditional rationale forregulatory restrictions and provides a list of principles of regulation that would serve as a model for global accounting practices.

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.