Introduction -- Nixon and Kissinger -- China reforms from 1978 to 1990 -- China from 1990 forward -- China's currency manipulation -- US foreign direct investment (FDI) -- European foreign direct investment -- China foreign direct investment in the United States -- China foreign direct...

Harrison, Rutherford, Tarr, and Gurgel estimate that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), the EU-MERCOSUR agreement, and multilateral trade policy changes will all be beneficial for Brazil. The Brazilian government strategy of simultaneously negotiating the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR...

Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Perspectives -- Introduction -- Geopolitical economy -- FTAS, statistics, and Korea -- Containment and South Korean development -- The Korean FTA strategy -- FTAs as development strategy -- FTA consequences -- The geopolitics of FTAs -- South Korea...

The European Union is world’s greatest economic block. The 27 Member States share the single market, thus a single trade policy. Further, Europe is the world’s largest exporter of goods and services and this market is managed through the executive arm of the EU i.e. the European Commission....

This paper determines the impacts of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) for Brazil under alternative assumptions concerning the returns to scale and the nature of competition in several industries, emphasizing the effects on the agribusiness activities. The GTAPinGAMS applied...

This book brings together contributions from leading scholars around the world on the most relevant and pressing economic themes surrounding the UK-EU relationship. With contributions spanning from the UK's accession to the bloc to the aftermath of its decision to leave, the book explores key...

Global trade flows : old structures, new issues, empirical evidence / Richard J. Grant, Maria C. Papadakis, and J. David Richardson -- The Uruguay Round and the GATT : whither the global system ? / John Whalley -- Globalism and regionalism : complements or competitors? / Soogil Young -- The...