Deutschland ist angeblich Exportweltmeister und Schlußlicht beim europäischen Wachstum. Das Land kämpft mit einer wachsenden Massenarbeitslosigkeit und beobachtet fassungslos die fortschreitende Verlagerung industrieller Arbeitsplätze in Niedriglohnländer. Die Angst der Bevölkerung...

Deutschland ist angeblich Exportweltmeister und Schlußlicht beim europäischen Wachstum. Das Land kämpft mit einer wachsenden Massenarbeitslosigkeit und beobachtet fassungslos die fortschreitende Verlagerung industrieller Arbeitsplätze in Niedriglohnländer. Die Angst der Bevölkerung...

Globalization changes the role and functions of the border and creates new forms of regional cooperation and development, arising from the need to generate development opportunities and to enhance international competitiveness of states in the international interconnected frame of the present....

Competitiveness, as a complex concept, can be observed in different ways, from the perspective of an individual, group, company and/or state. The subject of this paper deals with competitiveness of national economies observed through factor analysis, with a particular focus on the level of...

Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to trade is still a political choice, and trade policy can change with shifts in domestic political equilibria. This paper suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to...

Proponents of trade liberalization routinely defend international trade institutions as engines of economic growth that benefit everyone. How trade proponents justify trade institutions matters because their justificatory rhetoric leads to certain policy conclusions about whether it is...

This paper explores the impact of past and future growth in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China (PRC), and India — the ACI countries — on aggregate welfare, relative wages, and global emissions in the rest of the world. It outlines several...

In Asien entsteht eine neue Freihandelszone, und auch Lateinamerika plant den Abschluss eines Handelsabkommens. Führt der Aufstieg der neuen Wachstumsmärkte zu einem neuen Kräfteverhältnis auf dem Weltmarkt und einer Verschiebung des Schwerpunkts des Welthandels? Für Barbara Dluhosch,...

There is no consensus about the causes of the reduction in business cycle volatility seen in many major economies over the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic stability has been fostered by improved monetary policy and by...