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...

The issue of sovereign debt - its character and effect - is really part of the much larger battle between two fundamentally opposed visions of the nature and character of the nation-states in general, and debtor states in particular, and of the global system that maintains the market for such...

As the 2008 financial crisis spread globally, it became widely apparent that an essential ingredient to preventing future systemic crises was reform of the regulation of financial markets. Two ambitious initiatives for regulatory reform are the European Union's European System of Financial...

This paper covers tips on how government contractors can sell to the US Federal Government by leveraging public and commercial resources. Jennifer Schaus & Associates is a boutique government consulting firm in Washington DC assisting domestic and foreign firms with selling products and services...

The US Government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the WORLD spending over $400 Billion annually. This figure does not take into consideration the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act/Stimulus Funding. The government purchases everything from products to services...

Some scholars have argued that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution did not have a common set of views on economics, or that the Constitution, except perhaps in isolated clauses, does not reflect any specific economic views. The principal Framers did, in fact, share a basic set of economic...

In this paper we explore the relationship between international trade openness and two major political distortions, political polarization and political instability. We consider both the extensive and intensive margins of trade as measured by the number of trade partners and trade volume,...

At the Philippine Bureau of Customs, given the present high risk of systematic undervaluation, improving the accuracy and precision of import valuation will most likely contribute to increased government revenues. More importantly, this can also help shore up importers' support for present...

This paper is an effort to capture the canvas of GATS and its interrelationship with over all trade value chain and MNC business models. Looking at the patterns of services trade, it is interesting to note that on one end, the improvements in telecom infrastructure facilitate new ways to export...