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...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Alternatives to LCRs -- Survey Snapshot -- Case Studies -- Plan of the Study -- Chapter 1 - Introduction: The LCR Phenomenon -- Characteristics of LCRs -- Why LCRs Are Bad Policy -- Motives behind...

"Between Brexit, efforts to 'Make America great again' and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer choices has been brought to the fore. This book maps out this terrain and provides a framework...

Purpose: This paper aims to incorporate rules of origin into international taxation into firms' global operations. The purposes of this research are to develop a new model for the global logistics network design of an assembly system with rules of origin and to analyze how the changes of...