The Regionalization of the World Economy
Frankel, J.A. (editor) (1998)
Abstract: Regional economic arrangements such as free trade areas (FTAs), customs unions, and currency blocs, have become increasingly prevalent in the world economy. Both pervasive and controversial, regionalization has some economists optimistic about the opportunities it creates and others fearful that it may corrupt fragile efforts to encourage global free trade. Including both empirical and theoretical studies, this volume addresses several important questions: Why do countries adopt FTAs and other regional trading arrangements? To what extent have existing regional arrangements actually affected patterns of trade? What are the welfare effects of such arrangements? Several chapters explore the economic effects of regional arrangements on patterns of trade, either on price differentials or via the gravity model on bilateral trade flows. In addition, this book examines the theoretical foundation of the gravity model. Making extensive use of the gravity model of bilateral trade, several chapters explore the economic effects of regional arrangements. In addition, this book examines the theoretical foundation of the gravity model.
The Economic and Monetary Union: Current and Future Prospects
Arestis, P. & M. Sawyer (1999)
Abstract: The euro was adopted as legal tender, albeit in a virtual form, by 11 countries of the European Union on January 1, 1999, with the intention that notes and coins denominated in euros would be introduced and the national currencies would be phased out during the first six months of that year and that the euro would be fully operational by 2002. This paper first reviews the current position of the EMU member states in relation to the convergence criteria under the Maastricht Treaty and finds that there must have been a considerable degree of "fudge" for the criteria to have been met. The paper next looks at the central role of aggregate demand in the EMU and at concerns about unemployment. It next examines the prospects of the current EMU arrangements, concluding that they are highly deflationary. To overcome the deflationary bias of current proposals and as a means to alleviate the serious unemployment problem, the authors recommend that the European Central Bank be enhanced by (1) the development of a new institution, the European Union Development Bank, and (2) a modification of the Stability and Growth Pact.
Fiscal Federalism and European Integration: Implications for Fiscal and Monetary Policies
Gramlich, E.M. & P.R. Wood (2000)
The Contested Meaning of Labour Market Flexibility: Economic Theory and the Discourse of European Integration
Deakin, S. & H. Reed (2000)
Price Level Convergence in Europe
Rogers, J.H., G.C. Hufbauer & E. Wada (2001)
Fiscal Consolidation and the Probability Distribution of Deficits: A Stochastic Analysis of the Stability Pact
Hallett, A.J.H. & P. McAdam (2001)
Stabilization policy in a two country model and the role of financial frictions
Faia, E. (2001)
Trade Integration and Risk Sharing
Kraay, A. & J. Ventura (2001)
Tax Harmonization versus Tax Competition in Europe: A Game Theoretical Approach
Fourcans, A. & T. Warin (2001)
How Accession to the European Union Has Affected External Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Central European Economies
Kaminski, B. (2001)
A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Z. & E. Yashiv (2001)
The width of the intra-european economic borders
de Serres, A., P. Hoeller & C. de la Maisonneuve (2001)
Abstract: This paper first provides a brief overview of the literature on market segmentation and then presents an empirical exercise that sheds more light on the significance of border effects across European countries. The literature suggests that integration in the EU goods and financial markets is typically more advanced than among the other OECD countries. On the other hand, integration in Europe remains significantly lower than that observed between regions within countries. The empirical exercise is based on a set of comparable price data of tradeable goods collected just before the launch of the single currency. The paper finds that for a given distance, crossing national borders adds significantly to the price differential across European cities. However, this border effect is substantially smaller than the one found in previous estimates focusing on European and North American cities, which were based on the comparison of much broader price indices such as the consumer price index.
Economic Integration and Monetary Union
REVIEW PAPER
Coleman, A. (2001)
Real Convergence to EU Income Levels: Central Europe from 1990 to the Long Term
Doyle, P., L. Kuijs & G. Jiang (2001)
On the eve of EU enlargement
Welteke, E. October 2001
The Dynamic Impact on the Central-East European Economies of Accession to the European Union
Dyker, D.A. (2001)
Globalisation, European Integration and the Persistence of European Social Models
Hay, C., M. Watson & D. Wincott (2001)
Fiscal Federalism, EMU and Shock Absorption Mechanisms: A Guide to the Literature
REVIEW PAPER
Pacheco, L.M. (2001)
European Labour Markets and the Euro: How Much Flexibility Do We Really Need?
Burda, M.C. (2001)
The Art of Making Everybody Happy: How to Prevent a Secession
Le Breton, M. & S. Weber (2001)
What Does the European Union Do?
Alesina, A., I. Angeloni & L. Schuknecht (2001)
The Influence of Capital Market Integration on Production and Market Structures
Koop, M.J. (2001)
Instability and non-linearity in the EMU
Marcellino, M. (2001)
Growth and Convergence in a Two-Region Model: The Hypothetical Case of Korean Unification
Funke, M. & H. Strulik (2002)
Wages and wage-bargaining institutions in the EMU a survey of the issues
REVIEW PAPER
Calmfors, L. (2002)
How mobile is capital within the European Union?
Gorter, J. & A. Parikh (2002)
EU Regional and Cohesion Policy and Economic Integration of the Accession Countries
Bergs, R. (2002)
The ECB and Euro-Area Enlargement
Berger, H. (2002)
Trade Costs, Market Integration, and Macroeconomic Volatility
Brunner, A. & K. Naknoi (2003)
Arab Economic Integration: Between Hope and Reality
CONFERENCE VOLUME
Galal, A. & B. Hoekman (Editors) (2003)
Bayesian VARs: A Survey of the Recent Literature with an Application to the European Monetary System
Ciccarelli, M. & A. Rebucci (2003)
Regional Integration in East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities--Part I: History and Institutions
  
Sakakibara, E. & S. Yamakawa (2003)
Abstract: Over the past decade, regional integration has become the focus of intense global interest and debate, and the regionalization of East Asia has figured prominently in that dialogue. East Asia can be described as a heterogeneous region that is both global and intraregional. Sakakibara and Yamakawa examine the motivating factors and underlying dynamics of the progression toward closer cooperation in the region beginning from a historical perspective, which sets the stage for an evaluation of the form that regional cooperation might take so as not to sacrifice the benefits of the region’s already achieved openness. This examination includes a review of the lingering effects of the 1997–98 Asian crisis, the expanding role of China in the region, the prolonged slump in Japan’s economy, and the evolution of regional institutions such as the Asia-Pacific Economic cooperation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, among others. The authors focus on trade, direct investment, and the financial and monetary aspects of regional cooperation. In their analysis, they compare other regions, particularly the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Finally, the authors suggest cooperative steps the region might take over the next decade to promote the growth and stability of its member economies. In this regard, they look at the future role of regional institutions, the prospects for a regional role in promoting trade and foreign direct investment, and the possibilities for financial and monetary cooperation.
Regional Integration in East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities--Part II: Trade, Finance, and Integration
  
Sakakibara, E. & S. Yamakawa (2003)
Abstract: Sakakibara and Yamakawa analyze the patterns of East Asia’s trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) from a global and intraregional perspective, taking into account the importance of trade and FDI interlinkages. They propose two regionally-focused approaches to promoting trade and FDI in East Asia—regional agreements and regional production networks. The East Asia crisis strengthened appeals for regional cooperation in the financial area. As a result, a number of financial arrangements and initiatives have emerged since the crisis, the most prominent of these, the Chiang Mai Initiative. (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, the Republic of Korea, and Japan decided at their meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in May 2000, to establish a regional network of swap arrangements.) While opening of the capital account is considered desirable in the long run, it is associated with considerable risk, particularly if macroeconomic policies are not sound and financial supervision and regulation is weak. Because of the potential volatility associated with floating regimes and the desire to avoid another crisis in the region, the authors discuss a number of options.
On the Hidden Links Between Financial and Trade Opening | Published
Aizenman, J. (2003/08)
The Chinese Economies in Global Context: The Integration Process and Its Determinants
Cheung, Y-W., M.D. Chinn, E. Fujii (2003)
Nominal Exchange Rate Regimes and Relative Price Dispersion: On the Importance of Nominal Exchange Rate Volatility for the Width of the Border
Beck, G.W. (2003)
Net Foreign Assets And Imperfect Financial Integration: An Empirical Approach
Selaive, J. & V. Tuesta (2003)
Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long-run Comparison | Alternative
Keller, W. & C.H. Shiue (2004)
Recent Trends in Border Economics
Fullerton, T.M., Jr (2003)
Measuring Market Integration: Foreign Exchange Arbitrage and the Gold Standard, 1879-1913
Canjels, E., G. Prakash-Canjels & A.M. Taylor (2004)
Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration
Flood, R.P. & A.K. Rose (2004)
Regional spillovers, economic growth, and the effects of economic integration
Holod, D. & R.R. Reed, III (2004)
On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union
Barbera, S. & M.O. Jackson (2004)
A Constitution for the European Union
Blankart, C.B. & D.C. Mueller (editors) (2004)
Abstract: International economists and other scholars address the major issues that arise in writing a European constitution, including the evolution of federalism and the role of direct democracy.
Managing European Union Enlargement
Berger, H. & T. Moutos (editors) (2004)
Abstract: In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement particularly challenging. Not only do these countries vary widely in language, culture, and geography, but also their per capita income is less than half that of existing members. EU officials believe that expanded integration will serve the EU's objectives of peace, stability, prosperity, and democracy; but the less abstract questions of costs and benefits of enlargement are more complex. Each of the chapters in this CESifo volume addresses a different aspect of EU expansion. The contributors, all leading international practitioners and scholars, consider such topics as the effect of euro zone expansion on European Central Bank monetary policy making; using the euro as an external anchor for a national currency; worker migration and income differentials; the Swiss experience with immigration policy in a direct democracy framework; detailed sector analysis using a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy; investment and job creation and destruction in incumbent member countries; and the asymmetric effects of enlargement on high- and low-income incumbent countries. Taken together, the chapters provide useful guidance in shaping the EU policies of the future.
EU Enlargement, Migration and the New Constitution
Sinn, H-W. (2004)
Economic integration and privatisation under diseconomies of scale
Barcena-Ruiz, J.C. & G.M. Begona (2005)
Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries: Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Schnabel, C. & J. Wagner (2005)
On the gains from international financial integration
Wright, M.L.J. (2005)
Tradability, Productivity, and Understanding International Economic Integration | Published
Bergin, P.R. & R. Glick (2005/07)
Borders and Growth
Wacziarg, R.T. & E. Spolaore (2005)
What Does European Institutional Integration Tell Us About Trade Integration?
Mongelli, F.P., E. Dorrucci & I. Agur (2005)
The real effects of financial integration
Imbs, J. (2006)
The 'Sense and Nonsense of Maastricht' Revisited: What Have We Learnt About Stabilization In EMU?
Buiter, W. (2006)
Economic Integration and Similarity in Trade Structures
Tajoli, L. & L. de Benedictis (2006)
Macroeconomic and Financial Stability Challenges for Acceding and Candidate Countries
Winkler, A. & R. Beck (2006)
Cartel Stability and Economic Integration
Schröder, P.J.H. (2007)
Countries, regions and trade: On the welfare impacts of economic integration
Behrens, K., C. Gaigné, G.I.P. Ottaviano & J-F. Thisse (2007)
European integration, productivity growth and real convergence
Kutan, A.M. & T.M. Yigit (2007)
Is there really a “border effect”?
Mahbub Morshed, A.K.M. (2007)
Sustaining Collusion under Economic Integration
Colombo, L. & P. Labrecciosa (2007)
Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets
Keller, W. & C.H. Shiue (2008)
The Economic Impact of European Integration
Boltho, A. & B. Eichengreen (2008)
A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
Mundell, R. (1961)
Abstract: While it is obvious that periodic balance-of-payments crises will remain an integral feature of the international economic system as long as fixed exchange rates and rigid wage and price levels prevent the terms of trade from fulfilling a natural role in the adjustment process, the present paper cautions against the practicability of a system of national currencies connected by flexible exchange rates. In so doing, it presents a theory of optimum currency areas.
Optimum Currency Areas
McKinnon, R. (1963)
Abstract: This paper presents a simple model of a single currency area, and analyzes whether such an area should maintain flexible rates with the outside world. It finds that when we move across the spectrum from closed to open economies, flexible exchange rates become both less effective as a control device for external balance and more damaging to internal price-level stability.
Is there a Currency Bloc in the Pacific?
Frankel, J.A. (1999)
Whither EMU? Revisiting the EMU One Year On
Lim, J.J. (2000)
Toward a Common Currency?
Cooper, R. (2000)
One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade
Rose, A. (2001)
Currency Unions & International Integration
Rose, A.K. & C. Engel (2000)
Coordination of Fiscal Policies in a Monetary Union
Díaz-Roldán, C. (2000)
Insurance Mechanisms Against Asymmetric Shocks in a Monetary Union: A Proposal with an Application to EMU
Bajo-Rubio, O. & C. Díaz-Roldán (2000)
The Convergence of Automobile Prices in the European Union: an Empirical Analysis for the Period 1993-1999
Gaulier, G. & S. Haller (2000)
Abstract: Over the last decade, the EC automobile market has been the scene of significant price differentials for the same vehicle across the member states. The move towards a more integrated internal market, since January 1993, obviously calls for more up-to-date empirical information. We provide an analysis of price convergence over the period 1993-1999 for EU countries. Car characteristics were collected to build aggregate prices for countries thanks to a quasi-hedonic econometric model. Price dynamic is analyzed through Sigma and Beta convergence. We found that Sigma convergence is impeded by exchange rates fluctuations, while there is a strong force driving Beta convergence. The Euro should then favor convergence.
Financial Stability in the Euro Area - Some Lessons from US Financial History
Davis, E.P. (2000)
EMU and Enlargement: A Review of Policy Issues
REVIEW PAPER
de Souza, L.V., H. van Eden, A. de Groot, G. Romijn (NEI) & E. Ledrut (2001)
Abstract: This report is the final output of the study "Economic and Monetary Union and Enlargement" commissioned by the Directorate-General for Research of the European Parliament in May 1999. An Interim Report was provided in September 1999. The report reviews the mains policy issues concerning the accession of 10 Central and Eastern European Countries, and Cyprus and Malta, and the interaction with their parallel integration into the Economic and Monetary Union.
Will The Euro Bring Economic Crisis to Europe? | Alternative
Arestis, P. & M. Sawyer
Abstract: It has been argued that the eurozone will face considerable economic difficulties. These will take a number of forms, two of which could qualify as "crises." First, the euro was launched at a time when unemployment levels were high (10 percent of the workforce) and disparities in the experience of unemployment and standards of living were particularly severe. These high levels of unemployment are likely to continue in the foreseeable future, and the policy arrangements that surround the operation of the euro, notably the objectives of the European Central Bank and the workings of the Stability and Growth Pact, will have a deflationary bias. These levels of and disparities in unemployment could be termed a crisis. Second, the introduction of the euro and the associated institutional setting could well serve to exacerbate tendencies toward financial crisis, including the volatility and subsequent collapse of asset prices and runs on the banking system. Some additional forces of instability may arise from the current trade imbalances and the relationship between the dollar and the euro as two major global currencies. Further, the operating arrangements of the European System of Central Banks can be seen as inadequate to cope with such financial crises.
The Future of the Euro: Is There an Alternative to the Stability and Growth Pact?
Arestis, P., K. McCauley & M. Sawyer (2001)
Making EMU Work: Some Lessons from the 1990s
Bibow, J. (2001)
Financial market integration in Europe : on the effects of EMU on stock markets
Fratzscher, M. (2001)
Two years into the Euro: The Next Step for Europe
Colligon, S. (2001)
Abstract: European Monetary Union (EMU) has been good for Europe. Two years after it started, the economy of Euroland is in better shape with economic growth at 3.5 percent in 2000, the highest in over a decade, unemployment down, and price stability assured. However, contrary to previous expectations, the exchange rate has depreciated from its initial high level and although it recently seems to have turned around, public opinion often remains sceptical. Ultimately, this gap between reality and perception needs to be closed, if European integration and therefore EMU is to be sustained. In this paper, I will first review the economic arguments that led to the creation of the EMU and match them against the results. I will then analyse policy making in Euroland and put forward some recommendations for improvement.
Partisanship and fiscal policy co-ordination in a monetary union
Acocella, N. & G. Di Bartolomeo (2001)
Does a Currency Union Affect Trade? The Time Series Evidence
Glick, R. & A.K. Rose (2001)
The Impact of the EMU on the Structure of European Equity Returns - An Empirical Analysis of the First 21 Months
Kraus, T. (2001)
The Lucas Critique in Practice: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of European Monetary Integration on the Term Structure
Van Bergeijk, P.A.G. & J.M. Berk (2001)
Abstract: An empirical investigation of the term structure (the relation of the long interest rate to the short interest rate) showed structural change as the deadline for the euro became closer. Our empirical analysis of the term structures (yield curves) in 12 OECD countries uncovers that econometrically estimated behavioural equations for most EMU countries were stable even in the light of the creation of the euro. This finding would seem to defy the Lucas Critique. However, the significant structural instability found for the euro area's core country Germany suggests that the Lucas Critique is relevant in the analysis of the impact of the creation (and future extensions) of EMU.
Currency Unions and Trade: How Large is the Treatment Eect?
Persson, T. (2001)
Reserve Pooling in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and the CFA Franc Zone: A Comparative Analysis
Williams, O., T. Polius & S. Hazel (2001)
A Statistical Analysis of Banking Performance in the Caribbean Currency Union in the 1990s
Juan-Ramon, V.H., R.E. Randall & O. Williams (2001)
Monetary Policy Under EMU: Differences in the Transition Mechanism?
Clements, B.J., Z.G. Kontolemis & J.V. Levy (2001)
Limiting Currency Volatility to Stimulate Goods Market Integration: A Price Based Approach
Parsley, D.C. & S.J. Wei (2001)
Geography, Trade and Currency Union
Mélitz, J. (2001)
Can Countries under A Common Currency Conduct Their Own Fiscal Policies?
Izurieta, A. (2001)
Portfolio Diversification : Alive and well in Euroland!
Adjaoute, K. & K.P. Danthine (2001)
The Bank, the States, and the Market: An Austro-Hungarian Tale for Euroland, 1867-1914
Flandreau, M. (2001)
Abstract: In 1867, the "Compromise" between Austria and Hungary laid the foundation of a single currency system with a common central bank. As in today’s euroland, each part of the monarchy remained sovereign in fiscal matters. Moreover, the borrowing needs of both parts of the monarchy were quite large, since Austria and Hungary sought to promote their own economic development through government spending. Yet no ‘fiscal stability pact’ existed: the two countries could run deficits to the extent of the public's willingness to lend to them. They were thus only subjected to the discipline of the capital market. This paper documents the record of the Austro-Hungarian monetary union and shows how this discipline led to a process of increased power of the central bank.
Monetary stabilisation policy in a monetary union: some simple analytics
Brigden, A. & C. Nolan (2001)
The Costs and Benefits of Euro-sation in Central-Eastern Europe Before or Instead of EMU Membership
Nuti, D.M. (2001)
Independent and Accountable Central Banks and the European Central Bank
de Sousa, P.A.B. (2001)
To Euro or Not to Euro?
Risse, T. (2001)
The ECB Monetary Policy Strategy and the Money Market
Gaspar, V., G. Perez-Quiros & J. Sicilia (2001)
Limiting Currency Volatility to Stimulate Goods Market Integration: A Price-Based Approach
Parsley, D. & S.J. Wei (2001)
Monetary Unification and the Price of Risk: An Unconditional Analysis
Dewachter, H., K. Smedts & K. Maes (2001)
Interbank Market Integration under Asymmetric Information
Freixas, X., & C. Holthausen (2001)
The Impact of the EMU on the Structure of European Equity Returns - An Empirical Analysis of the First 21 Months
Kraus, T. (2001)
EMU and the Stability and Volatility of Foreign Exchange: Some Empirical Evidence
Bask, M., X. de Luna (2001)
Is Fiscal Policy Coordination in EMU Desirable?
Beetsma, R., X. Debrun & F. Klaassen (2001)
Assessing the Advantages of EMU-Enlargement for the EU and the Accession Countries: A Comparative Indicator Approach
Schweickert, R. (2001)
The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria, Intraindustry Trade, and EMU Enlargement
Fidrmuc, J. (2001)
Financial Market Integration in a Monetary Union
Buch, C.M. (2001)
Can Countries under A Common Currency Conduct Their Own Fiscal Policies?
Izurieta, A. (2001)
The Euro: A Success Against the Odds
Begg, I. (2001)
Self-Validating Optimum Currency Areas
Corsetti, G. & P. Pesenti (2002)
The Cost of Heterogeneity in a Monetary Union
Hughes Hallett, A. & D.N. Weymark (2002)
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Dynamics in an Asymmetric Monetary Union | Published
Clausen, V. & H.W. Wohltmann (2002)
The policy mix in a monetary union under alternative policy institutions and asymmetries
Gagnol, L. & M. Sidiropoulos (2002)
Is the United States an optimum currency area? An empirical analysis of regional business cycles
Kouparitsas, M.A. (2002)
Dollarization and monetary unions: implementation guidelines
Gruben, W.C., M.A.Wynne & C.E.J.M. Zarazaga (2002)
The Forex Regime and EMU Expansion
van Foreest, P.W. & C.G. de Vries (2002)
Abstract: This paper provides empirical evidence that, irrespective of the foreign exchange rate regime, countries with high monetary volatility have lower relative output growth rates. It is argued that due to the forward looking nature of the foreign exchange market, exchange rate stability hinges on the stability of the institutional structure within which monetary and fiscal policies are formulated. Subsequently, the likely endogenous response in the accession countries upon entry into EU and EMU is examined. This provides arguments for a rapid transition phase, possibly complemented by a one sided euroisation as a commitment device.
The Forex Regime and EMU Expansion
van Foreest, P.W. & C.G. de Vries (2002)
Price Dynamics in Central and Eastern European EU Accession Countries
Backé, P., J. Fidrmuc, T. Reininger& F. Schardax (2002)
Exchange-Rate and Interest-Rate Driven Competitive Advantages in the EMU
Niclas, A. & L. Oxelheim (2002)
Currency Unions and International Integration: Evidence from the CFA and the ECCU
Fielding, D. & K. Shields (2002)
One money, but many fiscal policies in Europe : what are the consequences?
Uhlig, H. (2002)
Real and Monetary Convergence within the European Union and Between the European Union and Candidate Countries: A Rolling Cointegration Approach
Brada, J.C., A.M. Kutan & S. Zhou (2002)
Towards Regional Currency Areas
CONFERENCE VOLUME
CEPII (2002)
Regional Price Adjustment in a Monetary Union the Case of EMU
Berk, J.M. & J. Swank (2002)
Compatibility Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy Under EMU
Leith, C. & S. Wren-Lewis (2002)
Views on the Optimum Currency Area Theory: What is EMU Telling US?
Mongelli, F.P. (2002)
Monetary Union: European Lessons, Latin American Prospects
Hochreiter, E., K. Schmidt-Hebbel & G. Winckler (2002)
The Federal Design of a Central Bank in a Monetary Union: The Case of the European System of Central Banks
Eijffinger, S.C.W. (2002)
Time inconsistency and free-riding in a monetary union
Chari, V. V. & P.J. Kehoe (2002)
Nominal Wage Flexibility in a Monetary Union
Erlandsson, M. (2002)
Time Consistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union
Chari, V.V. & P.J. Kehoe (2002)
Monetary Integration in the Southern Cone: Mercosur Is Not Like the EU?
Belke, A. & D. Gros (2002)
Reflections on the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criteria in the light of EMU
Artis, M.J. (2002)
The Euro Is Good After All: Corporate Evidence
Bris, A., Y. Koskinen & M. Nilsson (2002)
Monetary policy and the financial acclerator in a monetary union
Gilchrist, S., J. Hairault & H. Kempf (2002)
Price Convergence under EMU? First Estimates
Lutz, M. (2002)
Economic Effects of Currency Unions
Tenreyro, S. & R.J. Barro (2003)
Monetary Union in West Africa: Who Might Gain, Who Might Lose, and Why?
Debrun, X., P. Masson & C. Pattillo (2003)
A Currency Union for the Caribbean
Worrell, D. (2003)
Trade Effects of Monetary Integration in Large, Mature Economies: A Primer on the European Monetary Union
de Souza, L.V. (2003)
Regional inflation in a currency union: fiscal policy vs. fundamentals | Published
Duarte, M. & A.L. Wolman (2003/08)
Asymmetric Information and Monetary Policy in Common Currency Areas
Bottazzi, L. & P. Manasse (2003)
Towards a Single Retail Banking Market? New Evidence from Euroland
Kleimeier, S. & H. Sander (2003)
Electonic Money and the Optimal Size of Monetary Unions
Storti, C., & P. De Grauwe (2003)
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in a Micro-Founded Model of a Monetary Union | Published
Beetsma, R. & H. Jensen (2003/2005)
Common Currencies versus Monetary Independence
Cooley, T.F. & V. Quadrini (2003)
Currency Unions and Trade: Variations on Themes by Rose and Persson
Kenen, P. (2003)
EU Enlargement and Beyond: A Simulation Study on EU and CIS Integration
Sulamaa, P. & M. Widgrén (2003)
Patching up the Pact: some Suggestions for Enhancing Fiscal Sustainability and Macroeconomic Stability in an Enlarged European Union
Buiter, W.H. & C. Grafe (2003)
Asian Monetary Integration: A Structural VAR Approach
Zhang, Z., K. Sato & M. McAleer (2003)
The Impact of the Euro on Trade: The (Early) Effect is Not So Large
De Nardis, S. & C. Vicarelli (2003)
Prospects for an Asian currency area
Mundell, R. (2003)
Symbiosis of monetary and fiscal policies in a monetary union
Dixit, A. & L. Lambertini (2003)
Monetary Union and the Interest-Exchange Rate Trade-off
Bohn, F. (2003)
Monetary Union, Entry Conditions and Economic Reform
Ozkan, F.G., A. Sibert & A. Sutherland (2003)
The Impact of Regionalism on Trade in Europe
Alho, K.E.O. (2003)
Labour market flexibility and policy coordination in a monetary union
Rantala, A. (2003)
The Impact of Monetary Union on Trade Prices
Anderton, R., R.E. Baldwin & D. Taglioni (2003)
Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theorectical Underpinnings and Challenges | Alternative
Arestis, P. & M. Sawyer (2003)
Mark-Up Fluctuations and Fiscal Policy Stabilization in a Monetary Union
Beetsma, R. & H. Jensen (2003)
Mundell Revisited: a Simple Approach to the Costs and Benefits of a Single Currency Area | Published
Ching, S. & M.B. Devereux (2003)
Double Discretion, International Spillovers and the Welfare Implications of Monetary Unification
Cavelaars, P.A.D. (2003)
Financial market integration in the euro area
Gjersem, C. (2003)
Structural Reforms and the Enlargement of Monetary Union
Hefeker, C. (2003)
The Euro Area Financial System: Structure, Integration and Policy Initiatives
Hartmann, P., A. Maddaloni & S. Manganelli (2003)
Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union, 1748–1811: A Quest for Monetary Stability or a Usurpation of State Sovereignty for Personal Gain?
Grubb, F. (2004)
On the Desirability of Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union | Published
Chari, V.V. & P.J. Kehoe (2004/07)
Is it is or is it Ain't my Obligation? Regional Debt in Monetary Unions
Cooper, R., H. Kempf & D. Peled (2004)
Inflation convergence after the introduction of the Euro
Mentz, M. & S.P. Sebastian (2003)
A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade
Rose, A. (2004)
Nominal versus Real Convergence with Respect to EMU Accession: How to Cope with the Balassa-Samuelson Dilemma
Schnabl, G. & P. De Grauwe (2004)
Have a Break, Have a ... National Currency: When Do Monetary Unions Fall Apart?
Nitsch, V. (2004)
Financial Integration, Exchange Rate Regimes in CEECs, And Joining the EMU: Just Do It...
Maurel, M. (2004)
European Monetary Integration
CONFERENCE VOLUME
Sinn, H-W., M. Widgrén & M. Köthenbürger (2004)
Abstract: Studies examining the policy challenges posed by European monetary integration, including asymmetry problems and fiscal concerns.
The Suitability of a Greater China Currency Union
Cheung, Y-W. & J. Yuen (2004)
Does a common currency lead to (more) price equalization? The role of psychological pricing points
Friberg, R. & T.Y. Matha (2004)
External Effects of Currency Unions
Plümper, T. & V.E. Troeger
Instability And Trade In Currency Areas | Published
Alonso, A., L.C. Corchon & V. Guzman (2004/07)
Currency unions and the real exchange rate
Ca'Zorzi, M. & R.A. De Santis (2004)
Measuring the Trade Effects of EMU
Faruqee, H. (2004)
A Common Currency: Early U.S. Monetary Policy and the Transition to the Dollar
Rousseau, P.L. (2004)
Leaving EMU: a real options perspective
Strobel, F. (2004)
One money, one cycle? Making Monetary Union a smoother ride
Hoeller, P., C. Giorno & C. de la Maisonneuve (2004)
Fiscal and Monetary Interaction: The Role of Asymmetries of the Stability and Growth Pact in EMU
Eijffinger, S.C.W. & M. Governatori (2004)
Currency Bloc Formation as a Dynamic Process Based on Trade Network Externalities
Yehoue, E. (2004)
How Do Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interact in the European Monetary Union?
Canzoneri, M.B., R.E. Cumby & B.T. Diba (2005)
The Effect of Monetary Unification on Public Debt and its Real Return
Beetsma, R. & K. Vermeylen (2005)
Measuring the Economic Impact of Monetary Union: The Case of Okinawa
Takagi, S., M. Shintani & T. Okamoto (2005)
Monetary policy problems for currency unions: asymmetry and the problem of aggregation in the euro area
Mayes, D.G. & M. Viren (2005)
Fiscal stabilization policy in a monetary union with inflation targeting
Andersen, T.M. (2005)
On the Pattern of Currency Blocs in Africa
Yehoue, E. (2005)
The Euro and the Stability Pact
Feldstein, M. (2005)
Endogeneities of optimum currency areas: what brings countries sharing a single currency closer together?
De Grauwe, P. & F.P. Mongelli (2005)
Interest rate decisions in an asymmetric monetary union
Matsena, E. & Ø. Røislandb (2005)
Welfare Implications of Joining a Common Currency
Ca'Zorzi, M., R.A. De Santis & F. Zampolli (2005)
Small country benefits from monetary union
Grubel, H. (2005)
Uncertainty, Wage Setting and Decision Making in a Monetary Union
Hefeker, C. (2005)
Dynamic stock market integration driven by the European Monetary Union: An empirical analysis
Kim, S.J., F. Moshirian & E. Wu (2005)
Fiscal and Monetary Rules for a Currency Union
Ferrero, A. (2005)
Wage Rigidity and Monetary Union
Dellas, H. & G. Tavlas (2005)
Prospects for Monetary Unions after the Euro
CONFERENCE VOLUME
De Grauwe, P. & J. Mélitz (editors) (2005)
Abstract: Empirical and theoretical studies on such questions as the desirability and optimal functioning of monetary unions, the enlargement of the eurozone, and the institution of monetary unions in Latin America and East Asia.
Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union
Gali, J. & T. Monacelli (2005)
Is Time Ripe for a Currency Union in Emerging East Asia? The Role of Monetary Stabilisation
Sanchez, M. (2005)
Towards European Monetary Integration: The Evolution of Currency Risk Premium as a Measure for Monetary Convergence Prior to the Implementation of Currency Unions
Gonzalez, F. & S. Launonen (2005)
Inflation targeting rules and welfare in an asymmetric currency area
Lombardo, G. (2006)
Rational Inattention, Inflation Developments and Perceptions after the Euro Cash Changeover
Ehrmann, M. (2006)
Monetary Union with Voluntary Participation
Fuchs, W. & F. Lippi (2006)
The Role of Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union: Are National Automatic Stabilizers Effective? | Published
Colciago, A., A. Muscatelli & T. Ropele (2006/08)
Monetary Unions, External Shocks and Economic Performance: A Latin American Perspective
Edwards, S. (2006)
The Parallel-Currency Approach to Asian Monetary Integration
Eichengreen, B. (2006)
MENA countries as optimal currency areas: Reality or dream
Sahin, H. (2006)
The Real Effects of EMU
Lane, P.R.
The Elusive Gains from International Financial Integration
Gourinchas, P-O. & O. Jeanne (2006)
Implications of Monetary Union for Catching-up Member States
Sanchez, M. (2006)
Joining the European Monetary Union - Comparing First and Second Generation Open Economy Models
Le, V.P.M. & P. Minford (2006)
What Do We Now Know About Currency Unions?
Artis, M.J. (2006)
Euros and Zeros: The Common Currency Effect on Trade in New Goods
Baldwin, R.E. & V. Di Nino (2006)
One Market, One Money, One Price?
Allington, N.F.B., P.A. Kattuman & F.A. Waldmann (2006)
Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Wunder, C., J. Schwarze, G. Krug & B. Herzog (2006)
Convergence to Purchasing Power Parity at the Commencement of the Euro
Lopez, C. & D.H. Papell (2007)
Monetary stabilisation in a currency union: The role of catching up member states
Sánchez, M. (2007)
Currency Areas and International Assistance
Worrall, T. & P.M. Picard (2006)
Explaining the early years of the euro exchange rate: An episode of learning about a new central bank
Gómez, M., M. Melvin & F. Nardari (2007)
Monetary union, price level convergence, and inflation: How close is Europe to the USA?
John H. Rogers (2007)
Currency areas and international assitance
Picard, P.M. & T. Worrall (2007)
A Monetary Union Model with Cash-in-Advance Constraints
Cengiz, G., C. Deniz, T.U. Kuzubas, N.B. Olcay & I. Saglam (2007)
Exchange rate volatility and growth in small open economies at the EMU periphery
Schnabl, G. (2007)
The Breakup of the Euro Area
Eichengreen, B. (2007)
A Model of an Optimum Currency Area
Ricci, L.A. (2007)
Sui Generis EMU
Eichengreen, B. (2008)
The mechanics of a monetary union with segmented financial markets
Alves, N. (2008)
A Modern Reconsideration of the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas
Corsetti, G. (2008)
EMU enlargement, stabilization costs and insurance mechanisms
Afonso, A. & D. Furceri (2008)
The trade and FDI effects of EMU enlargement
Brouwer, J., R. Paap & J-M. Viaene (2008)
In search of a euro effect: Big lessons from a Big Mac Meal?
Parsley, D. & S-J. Wei (2008)
The euro: Did the markets cheer or jeer?
Green, C.J. & Y. Bai (2008)
Sharing Money Creation in a Monetary Union
Auray, S., A. Eyquem, G. Hamiache & J-C. Poutineau (2008)
Research papers Regional Integration Agreements has been filed under the international trade research section.
The myth of economic globalization : notes from a European perspective
Papers on Globalisation & Poverty
Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor
White Paper Background Papers
Abstract: Background papers for the UK Government's second White Paper on International Development entitled: "Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor".
Globalization and Macroeconomics
Abstract: Since the earliest days of systematic economic analysis, economists have sought to understand how the openness of economies affects their responses to disturbances occurring both at home and abroad. Indeed, the 1999 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was presented to Robert A. Mundell in large part for his pioneering studies of the links among economic policy, monetary arrangements, and the degrees of international capital and labor mobility. My recent research concentrates on four sets of questions in international macroeconomics. First, how integrated are world markets, and what does the degree of integration imply for macroeconomic phenomenons? Second, how can we model the open economy in a way that is useful for guiding policy? Third, what are the implications for international monetary arrangements? Fourth, what forces have promoted international economic integration, specifically the integration of capital markets?
Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?
Civil regulation - new governance for the global economy?
Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Globalization and the Challenge for Developing Countries
Globalization
Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts
Winners and losers: making the most of globalisation
Abstract: Can developing country governments simultaneously integrate with the world economy and work towards poverty elimination? Who are the losers from globalisation and how should the international community respond to the fact of their loss?
Globalization and Firms' Financing Choices: Evidence from Emerging Economies | Published
International Migration and the Global Economic Order:An Overview
Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam
Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from Within China
Globalization and Capital Markets
New world order? In search of stability for the global economy
Globalization and Changing Patterns in the International Transmission of Shocks in Financial Markets | Published
Globalizzazione
Globalisation: a threat to social policy?
The Missing Globalization Puzzle
Globalization and Democracy
REVIEW PAPER
Abstract: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 581.
Financial Globalization and Real Regionalization | Alternative
Abstract: Over the period 1972-1986, the correlations of GDP, employment and investment between the United States and an aggregate of Europe, Canada and Japan were respectively 0.76, 0.66, and 0.63. For the period 1986 to 2000 the same correlations were much lower: 0.26, 0.03 and -0.07 (real regionalization). At the same time, U.S. international asset trade has significantly increased. For example, between 1972 and 1999, United States gross FDI and equity assets in the same group of countries rose from 4 to 23 percent of the U.S. capital stock (financial globalization). We document that the correlation of real shocks between the U.S. and the rest of the world has declined. We then present a model in which international financial market integration occurs endogenously in response to less correlated shocks. Financial integration further reduces the international correlations in GDP and factor supplies. We find that both less correlated shocks and endogenous financial market development are needed to account for all the changes in the international business cycle.
Globalization, Trade, and Development: Some Lessons From History
Overturning Mundell: fiscal policy in a monetary union
Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production
Determinants of FDI in Developing Countries: Has Globalization Changed the Rules of the Game?
Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries
Financial Globalization: Unequal Blessings
Financial Globalization: Some Conceptual Problems
Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility
AFTA and the Asian Crisis: Help or Hindrance to ASEAN Intra-Regional Trade
International Financial Integration | Alternative
Information Diffusion in International Markets
The Elusive Gains from International Financial Integration
The Debate on Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality: Why Measurement Matters
Globalisation: heralding the end of the developmental state?
Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity, and the Global Economy
Globalization and Its Challenges
Benefits and Costs of International Financial Integration: Theory and Facts
International Financial Integration
Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor
Financial Globalization and Regulation | Alternative
Globalization and Poverty
Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate
Challenges to Globalization
Abstract: Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices. Of significant note are papers on the labor market that discuss the infamous brain drain, sweat shop labor, wage levels, and changes in production processes.
Has Globalization Gone Far Enough? The Costs of Fragmented Markets
A fair globalization: creating opportunities for all
Wealth bias in the first global capital market boom, 1870-1913
The G-20 and the World Economy
Islam, Globalization, and Economic Performance in the Middle East
Globalization, Returns to Accumulation and the World Distribution of Output | Published
Globalization, Technology and Asian Development
False Prophet, or Genuine Savior? Assessing the Effects of Economic Openness on Sustainable Development, 1980-1999
Globalization, Poverty, Inequality, and Insecurity: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness
Globalization’s Bystanders: Does Globalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate?
What Are the Right Institutions in a Globalizing World? And ... Can We Keep Them if We've Found Them?
Financial Globalization, Growth and Volatility in Developing Countries
Abstract: This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of empirical evidence about the impact of financial globalization on growth and volatility in developing countries. The results suggest that it is difficult to establish a robust causal relationship between financial integration and economic growth. Furthermore, there is little evidence that developing countries have been consistently successful in using financial integration to stabilize fluctuations in consumption growth. However, we do find that financial globalization can be beneficial under the right circumstances. Empirically, good institutions and quality of governance are crucial in helping developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, macroeconomic stability appears to be an important prerequisite for ensuring that financial globalization is beneficial for developing countries. Finally, countries that employ relatively flexible exchange rate regimes and succeed in maintaining fiscal discipline are more likely to enjoy the potential growth and stabilization benefits of financial globalization.
Globalization and Disinflation: A Note
Fair Trade: A 'Third Generation' Welfare Mechanism to Make Globalisation Sustainable
Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa
Policies Facilitating Firm Adjustment to Globalization
Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor?
Economic Takeoffs in a Dynamic Process of Globalization
Globalisation vs Skill-Biased Technological Change: Implications for Unemployment and Wage Inequality
Globalization and Values
Metrics Capturing the Degree to which Individual Economies are Globalized
A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform
Abstract: The huge costs of armed conflict, the great challenge of state failure, and the slow pace of international actions to address world poverty all point to weaknesses in the global institutional framework and the need for much more effective international cooperation. In this book, Kemal Dervis argues that it is time to build a new international governance structure, breaking away from a system that reflects the post World War II world toward one that is appropriate to the realities and requirements of the 21st century. He proposes a reform of the international institutional architecture based on high-level governance in both the political and economic domains by a renewed and modernized United Nations. Navigating between careful realism and bold idealism, he formulates a coherent vision encompassing both institutional reform and new ideas for policies supported by the specialized institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, the UN agencies themselves, and regional institutions such as the regional development banks. In this plea for “better” globalization, Dervis proposes that, under the legitimizing umbrella of the UN, the specialized institutions deal with the deep causes of the obstacles to poverty reduction and instability rather than their immediate manifestations. He recognizes the great potential that more and freer trade can have for accelerating growth throughout the world. He also stresses, however, that for this potential to be unleashed, the hearts and minds of people must be won by transforming not only the WTO framework but the entire governance of the international economic system into something that is perceived as more legitimate and more responsive to the concerns of the developing world as well as wealthy and creditor nations.
Globalization in Historical Perspective
Abstract: As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. This volume presents a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration.
Globalization and Developing Countries - A Shrinking Tax Base?
Globalization and Stock Market Returns
Globalization in the World of Finance: An Analytical History
China's Embrace of Globalization
Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal
The External Financing of Emerging Market Countries: Evidence from Two Waves of Financial Globalization
Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection
Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History
International Trade and Finance under the Two Hegemons: Complementaries in the United Kingdom 1870-1913 and the United States 1920-30
Losing our Marbles in the New Century? The Great Rebalancing in Historical Perspective
Globalization and the ‘confidence game’
Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization
Ideology and Voter Preferences as Determinants of Financial Globalization
Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence
Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries
Globalisation and the role of effective international institutions
Migration, spillovers, and trade diversion: The impact of internationalization on domestic stock market activity
It's a Big World After All
Distressed workers: What has globalization to do with it? Globalization and Monetary Control
Social Security in a globalizing world
Financial Globalization and Emerging Market Portfolios
On the Welfare Implications of Financial Globalization without Financial Development
Challenges to Globalization
Abstract: Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets including the brain drain, sweat shop labor, wage levels, and changes in production processes, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices.
Globalization and Its Impact on Labour
How to Save Globalization from its Cheerleaders
Foreign Capital and Economic Growth in the First Era of Globalization
International Financial Integration and the Real Economy
Surviving globalisation
Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885 -1933
Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
Abstract: This paper develops a simple model that shows how a country can endogenously become differentiated into an industrialized "core" and an agricultural "periphery". In order to realize scale economies while minimizing transport costs, manufacturing firms tend to locate in the region with larger demand, but the location of demand itself depends on the distribution of manufacturing. Emergence of a core-peiphery pattern depends on transportation costs, economies of scale, and the share of manufacturing in national income.
The Spatial Economy: Introduction
Cluster emergence on a global continuum
Geography & Development
Internet Cluster Emergence
Abstract: Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In such a ``weightless economy'', what factors matter for the location of economic activity and thus for economic development? This paper sketches a model of spatial dynamics over a three-dimensional globe, where transportation costs don't matter. The paper develops conditions under which clusters of activity emerge.
Singapore's Role as ICT Hub: View from the New Economic Geography
The Economic Geography of the Internet Age
Demand-driven knowledge clusters in a weightless economy
The Economic Geography of the Internet Age
Abstract: This paper combines the perspective of an international economist with that of an economic geographer to reflect on how and to what extent the Internet will affect the location of economic activity. Even after the very substantial transportation and communication improvements during the 20th Century, most exchanges of physical goods continue to take place within geographically-limited 'neighborhoods.' Previous rounds of infrastructure improvement always have had a double effect, permitting dispersion of certain routine activities but also increasing the complexity and time-dependence of productive activity, and thus making agglomeration more important. We argue that the Internet will produce more of the same forces for deagglomeration, but offsetting and possibly stronger tendencies toward agglomeration. Increasingly the economy is dependent on the transmission of complex uncodifiable messages, which require understanding and trust that historically have come from .face-to-face contact. This is not likely to be affected by the Internet, which allows long distance 'conversations' but not 'handshakes.'
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Agglomeration Economies and Productivity in Indian Industry
Bones, Bombs and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity
How Migration Restrictions Limit Agglomeration and Productivity in China
Technology, Agglomeration, and Regional Competition for Investment
Regional specialization and trade patterns in Europe
Agglomeration, Integration and Tax Harmonization
Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?
Geography and Export Performance: External Market Access and Internal Supply Capacity
Space Is more than Geography
Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs
Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan
Micro-Foundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies
Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location
Comparative Advantage and the Location of Production
The Origins of Spatial Interaction
Economic geography and international inequality
Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration
Boom Towns And Ghost Countries: Geography, a Conglomeration, and Population Mobility?
Abstract: Ghost towns dot the West of the United States. These cities boomed for a period and then, for various reasons, fell into a process of decline and have shrunk to a small fraction of their former population. Are there ghost countries—countries that, if there were population mobility, would only have a very small fraction of their current population? This paper carries out four empirical illustrations of the potential magnitude of the “ghost country” problem by showing that the “desired population” of any given geographic region varies substantially. First, the variance of growth rates of populations due to mobility across regions of the same country is often twice large as the variance across all developing countries in the world. While the variance of per capita output or income growth is much smaller. The ratio of the variance of the growth of population to the variance of the growth of output per head across regions within countries is 4 to 14 times as large as the same ratio across developing countries. Second, using county level data I construct “ghost regions” of the United States —contiguous collections of counties that are the size of many countries and have only a third the population they would have had without out-migration. Third, I compare the historical evolution of labor force and real wages of Ireland in the nineteenth century to the response of labor force and wages (or output per head) to negative shocks when labor mobility is restricted. Fourth, I calculate the changes in the labor force that would restore GDP per capita to its previous peak. All of these calculations suggest that even with thorough going “globalization” —the free mobility of goods and capital— and complete “policy reform” —common economic institutions and policies— there will remain substantial pressures for labor mobility. This also implies there will be both boom towns and ghost countries.
On the Geography of Trade: Distance is Alive and Well
Regional Policy, Integration and the Location of Industry in a Multiregion Framework
Globalization, polarization and cultural drift
Economic Geography: Real or Hype?
Agglomeration and Welfare: The Core-Periphery Model in the Light of Bentham, Kaldor and Rawls | Published
Location of vertically linked industries: agglomeration versus comparative advantage
Dynamic Cities and Creative Clusters
A Simple Model of Economic Geography a la Helpman-Tabuchi
Market potential, increasing returns and geographic concentration
Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy
Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography: Spatial Selection and Sorting
Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor
Cities and Countries
Abstract: If one ranks cities by population, the rank of a city is inversely related to its size, a well-documented phenomenon known as Zipf's Law. Further, the growth rate of a city's population is uncorrelated with its size, another well-known characteristic known as Gibrat's Law. In this paper, I show that both characteristics are true of countries as well as cities; the size distributions of cities and countries are similar. But theories that explain the size-distribution of cities do not obviously apply in explaining the size-distribution of countries. The similarity of city- and country-size distributions is an interesting riddle.
Putting New Economic Geography to the Test: Free-ness of Trade and Agglomeration in the EU Region
Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect
Urban Extremism
Globalization and the Evolution of the Supply Chain: Who Gains and Who Loses?
R&D and Strategic Industrial Location in International Oligopolies
Agglomeration and Aid
Firm location decisions, regional grants and agglomeration externalities
Trade and the location of industries: Some new results
Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography
Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography: Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters
Explaining the size distribution of cities: X-treme economies
Estimating Agglomeration Economies with History, Geology, and Worker Effects
Economic Linkages Across Space
Globalization
Kleinknecht, A. & J. Wengel (1997)
Department for International Development (2000)
Various authors (2000)
Obstfeld, M. (2000)
Lindert, P.H. & J.G. Williamson (2001)
Bendell, J. (2001)
Rousseau, P.L. & R. Sylla (2001)
Yusuf, S. (2001)
Greenspan, A. (US Fed) (2001)
Various (2001)
White, H. (2001)
Schmukler, S. & E. Vesperoni (2002/05)
Solimano, A. (2002)
Edmonds, E. & N. Pavcnik (2002)
Wei, S.J. & Y. Wu (2002)
Obstfeld, M. & A.M. Taylor (2002)
Gardiner, R. (2002)
Bordo, M.D. & A.P. Murshid (2002/06)
Helg, R. (2002)
Norton, A. (2002)
Coe, D.T., A. Subramanian, N.T. Tamirisa & R. Bhavnani (2002)
Munck, R.P & B.K. Gills (2002)
Heathcote, J. & F. Perri (2002)
Taylor, A.M. (2002)
Cooper, R. & H. Kempf (2002)
Scheve, K. & M. Slaughter (2002)
Nunnenkamp, P. (2002)
Rama, M. (2003)
de la Torre, A., E.L. Yeyati & S. Schmukler (2003)
Arestis, P. & S. Basu (2003)
Kose, A., E.S. Prasad & M.E. Terrones Silva (2003)
Elliott, R.J.R. & K. Ikemoto (2003)
Lane, P. & G.M. Milesi-Ferretti (2003)
Morisset, J., A. Izquierdo & M. Olarreaga (2003)
Gourinchas, P.O. & O. Jeanne (2003)
Ravallion, M. (2003)
Newell, P. (2003)
Paehlke, R.C. (2003)
Fischer, S. (2003)
Agenor, P.R. (2001)
Lane, P.R. & G.M. Milesi-Ferretti (2003)
Neumayer, E. & I. de Soysa (2003)
Arestis, P. & S. Basu (2004)
Majid, N. (2004)
Hallak, J.C. & J. Levinsohn (2004)
Baldwin, R.E. (2004)
Bradford, S.C. & R.Z. Lawrence (2004)
ILO (2004)
Clemens, M.A. & J.G. Williamson (2004)
Bergsten, C.F. (2004)
Noland, M. & H. Pack (2004)
Beaudry, P. & F. Collard (2004/06)
Stiglitz, J. (2004)
de Soysa, I. & E. Neumayer (2004)
Graham, C. (2004)
Deardorff, A.V. & R.M. Stern (2004)
Islam, R. (2004)
Prasad, E.S., K.S. Rogoff, S-J. Wei & M.A. Kose (2004)
Razin, A. (2004)
Adriani, F. & L. Becchetti (2004)
Levinsohn, J. (2004)
Hoekman, B. & B.M. Javorcik (2004)
Aisbett, E. (2005)
Bond, E.W., R.W. Jones & P. Wang (2005)
Moore, M.P. & P. Ranjan (2005)
Whalley, J. (2005)
Riezman, R., J. Whalley & S. Zhang (2005)
Dervis, K. (2005)
CONFERENCE VOLUME
Bordo, M.D., A.M. Taylor & J.G. Williamson (editors) (2005)
Aizenman, J. & Y. Jinjarak (2006)
Lam, S.S. &l W. Ang (2006)
Das, D.K. (2006)
Bransetter, L. & N. Lardy (2006)
Kose, M.A., E. Prasad, S-J. Wei & K. Rogoff (2006)
Lince de Faria, A., P. Mauro, M. Minnoni & A. Zaklan (2006)
Williamson, J.G. (2006)
Williamson, J.G. (2006)
Taylor, A.M. & J.L.F. Wilson (2006)
Meissner, C.M. & A.M. Taylor (2006)
Mukand, S.W. (2006)
Jacks, D.S., C.M. Meissner & D. Novy (2006)
Quinn, D.P. & A.M. Toyoda (2007)
Mayda, A.M., K.H. O'Rourke & R. Sinnott (2007)
REVIEW PAPER
Goldberg, P.K. & N. Pavcnik (2007)
Moshirian, F. (2007)
Levine, R. & S.L. Schmukler (2007)
Brakman, S. & C. van Marrewijk (2007)
Bhagwati, J. (2007)
Woodford, M. (2007)
Kannan, K.P. (2007)
Devereux, M.B. (2007)
Mendoza, E.G., V. Quadrini & J-V. Ríos-Rull (2007)
Baldwin, R.E. (2007)
Feenstra, R.C. (2007)
Rodrik, D. (2007)
Bordo, M.D. & C.M. Meissner (2007)
Evans, M.D.D. & V.V. Hnatkovska (2007)
Greenaway, D., J. Gullstrand & R. Kneller (2008)
Wolf, N. (2008)
Mishkin, F.S.
Economic Geography
Krugman, P.R. (1991)
Fujita, M., P. Krugman & A. Venables (1999)
Quah, D. (1999)
Henderson, V., Z. Shalizi & A.J. Venables (2000)
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