We proceed as follows. Section 7.2 deals with the conflicts arising from the persisting asymmetry of demand shocks, possible unfavourable effects on trade and welfare, lack of national and supranational fiscal stabilizers, low mobility and flexibility of labour and shortage of money stocks for...

We consider the relative effects of globalisation and regionalism in the context of recent developments in the world economy. We extent and advance the analysis of Chortareas and Pelagidis (2004) using the recently updated Penn World Tables data. This allows considering the recent ‘golden era'...