This paper highlights the rules and institutions that have characterized the European Monetary Union during its prolonged crisis and discusses the policies implemented in the Eurozone, stressing the limits of the strategy pursued by the European authorities. It also examines the issues of...

This paper is a discussion of the economic geography of Australia. It provides a history of foreign investment in mining, and discusses several resources booms that shaped the landscape of the continent and the role of governments (state, federal and territory governments) in this process. The...

This paper discusses the post-‘Lehman Brothers shock’ period of the Japanese foreign direct investment in Australia, and provides an analysis of the types of investment. The analysis begins with the theoretical frameworks that define multinational enterprise (MNE) activity, and foreign...

In March 2017, the UK voted to leave the EU in what is now popularly known as Brexit. The decision of the UK has raised many fundamental questions about the relationship between EU law and UK football, and the participation of UK football teams in UEFA tournaments. The also paper addressed the...

The paper aims at analysing if Bulgaria utilises the benefits of the participation in the Common Commercial Policy of the European Union (EU) by studying the dynamics of Bulgarian trade with countries which have concluded preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with the EU. Economic theory states...

India and China started opening up in the International market very late. They were in-ward looking economies in the beginning. But when they realized the importance of trade, they also opened up. The nature of both the economies changed from an in-ward looking economies to an out-ward looking...

After a long impasse, Mercosur and the European Union are once again negotiating to reach a Free Trade Agreement. The benefits from such a trade liberalization would be significant since these are essentially complementary economic regions. An agreement would also end decades of costly trade...

We estimate that a hard Brexit (HB) would reduce UK agro-industrial-imports from the EU by around 50%. Following the dismantling of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) the UK Government has proposed to shift towards market-oriented agricultural policies and negotiating free trade agreements...

It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the...

One of the main reasons for the changes that have taken place in the current global system of international economic relations in recent years is the long-standing lack of progress in the multilateral regulation of world trade within the World Trade Organization (WTO), which is driving countries...