This paper provides new empirical evidence on the international co-movements of Finnish stocks. The vector autoregression (VAR) approach indicates that US and especially Swedish stock markets lead Finnish stock market returns by approximately one or two months. The results based on international...

With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

Economists, trade policy experts, and legislators express their views on the competitive position of the United States in world trade.

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.

This volume shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations jeopardizes the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies.

This studyrebuts much of the traditional rationale forregulatory restrictions and provides a list of principles of regulation that would serve as a model for global accounting practices.

Contributors review the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and the historic 1985 agreement by the Group of Five.

This book considers the three geographical regions that present the greatest intellectual property rights problems to U.S. industries--China, Latin America, and India.

A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA.