This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade...

The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They deal with the relationship between the structure and quality of the public sector and the process of economic integration. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants...

The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They deal with the relationship between the structure and quality of the public sector and the process of economic integration. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants...

"Globalisierung" ist ein beliebtes Schlagwort in wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Diskussionen. Der Begriff weckt manche Hoffnungen, vor allem jedoch viele Ängste. Beschränkt man sich auf die außenwirtschaftlich relevanten Dimensionen der Globalisierung, läßt sich das Phänomen als...