European economic integration drives a political economy of regionalism that defines the principal axis of political-economic division in the New Europe. The New Economy drives a radical shift in EU policy from cohesion or redistribution toward innovation promotion, affecting distributional...

The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. While this approach has served the region well in the past, the drastic changes experienced since...

In this task, research is mostly finalised to analyse how EU policies have been distributed across space. Here, the main focus is on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) expenditure. The same territorial detail adopted in previous tasks is used (i.e., NUTS 3 level). By analysing CAP expenditure at...

Transformation to some market approaches in North Korea is of highest importance for more economic cooperation on the Korean peninsula. Kim Jong-uns's Byungjin policy, a new ideological approach announced in 2011, gave some hope for such reforms. At least, basic economic reforms like in China or...

We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....

East Asia in the wake of the financial crisis / Andrew MacIntyre, T.J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill -- After the fall : East Asian exchange rates since the crisis / Benjamin J. Cohen -- Banking systems a decade after the crisis / Natasha Hamilton-Hart -- Containing the oligarchs : the politics of...

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the Western Hemisphere -- 5 The Global Financial Crisis -- 6 The Economic Fallout -- 7 Unlimited Supplies of Labor -- 8 China's Economic Development -- 9 Global Imbalances and Corporate...

1 Political Economy of Japanese and Asian Development -- 2 The Challenge of the Rising Sun -- 3 The Pattern and Process of Asian Economic Development -- 4 Japanese Savings, Growth and Housing -- 5 Japanese Entrepreneurship in the Early Stage of Development -- 6 Japan and East Asia -- 7 US- Japan...