Regional economic integration

Is the world globalized as so many pundits claim? The facts say otherwise. Consumption, for example, has a strong domestic bias. Distance and borders are two important reasons for this bias and are a powerful deterrent to globalization. Also, multinational corporations the organizations that best sy...

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Other Authors Fratianni, Michele
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
SeriesResearch in global strategic management ; v. 12.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504027
ISSN1064-4857 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (291 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and summary of conclusions / Michele Fratianni
  • Borders and integration / Michele Fratianni
  • Regional trade agreements / Richard Pomfret
  • The economics of monetary unions : traditional and new / Herbert Grubel
  • The gravity of globalization / Diego Agudelo, Lawrence S. Davidson
  • A South American perspective : regional versus global trade patterns / Diego Agudelo, Galia Julieta Benítez, Lawrence S. Davidson
  • Intra-regional sales and performance of multinational enterprises / Alan M. Rugman, Nessara Sukpanich
  • Free trade agreement among China, Japan, and Korea / Heejoon Kang
  • Asian business is regional, not global / Alan M. Rugman, Simon Collinson
  • International terrorism, international trade, and borders / Michele Fratianni, Heejoon Kang
  • Political violence and foreign direct investment / Quan Li
  • Technical appendix on the regional economic integration database / Chang Hoon Oh.