This volume presents a selection of mainly empirical contributions which address growth potentials and potentials for growth in Europe and the OECD. The contributions offer a national-level as well as a firm-level perspective on these issues Given this rather broad view, the volume should be of...

FTAs are proliferating in East Asia. This proliferation will become a foundation for the region's economic integration on the one hand, but will also lead to the ""spaghetti (or noodle) ball syndrome,"" due to a mixture of different rules such as rules of origin. In addition, the need for many...

The book offers practical and theoretical insights in regional externalities. Regional externalities are a specific subset of externalities that can be defined as externalities where space plays a dominant role. This class of externalities can be divided into three categories: (1) externalities...