Borrowing the title from Robert Reich's 1990 article, 'Who is US?', I argue that it is first necessary to clear up some of the ambiguities in the current debate about European competitiveness if we are to develop a coherent and effective industrial and macroeconomic policy for Europe. Reich was...

Until the beginning of this century, the GATT/WTO system worked. Economic research provided a compelling explanation. It showed that if governments maximize the well-being of their own countries broadly defined, GATT/WTO principles would facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation over their...

This paper presents a non-technical discussion of economic issues that arise due to links between competition (or anti-trust) policy and international trade. While recent advances in international trade theory have borrowed heavily from the industrial organization literature, this work has a...