Research Catalog

Title

Global competition and integration / edited by Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran, Kazuo Mino.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Satō, Ryūzō, 1931-
• Ramachandran, Rama V.
• Mino, Kazuo, 1949-

Description

xiv, 594 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Global Competition and Integration offers varied perspectives on the changing international economy. The book is divided into four main sections covering world trade and competition, innovation and growth, financial markets and globalization, and regulation, distribution, and the role of government.

Series Statement

Research monographs in Japan-U.S. business & economics

Uniform Title

Research monographs in Japan-U.S. business & economics.

Subjects

• International trade
• Commercial policy
• International finance
• Competition

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Sect. I. World Trade and Competition. 1. A Coming Erosion of Advanced Nations' Well-Being from World Trade? / Paul A. Samuelson. 2. Free Trade vs. Strategic Trade / Gene M. Grossman and Giovanni Maggi. 3. Transport Costs and Patterns of International Trade / Hajime Hori. 4. Consequentialism and Procedural Evaluations in Social Welfare Judgements / Kotaro Suzumura. 5. On the Efficiency and Stability of Networks / Kunio Kawamata. 6. Expanding the Purchase of a Foreign Intermediate Good / Jota Ishikawa -- Sect. II. Innovation and Growth. 7. Estimation of Biased Technical Progress / Ryuzo Sato, Rama Ramachandran and Youngduk Kim. 8. Imitation and Innovation in Complex Markets / Jim Bessen and Eric Maskin. 9. Hypotheses on Routinization of Innovation / William J. Baumol. 10. Technology and Profit under Global Monopolistic Competition / Takashi Negishi. 11. New Derivation of Conservation Laws / Fumitake Mimura, Fumiyo Fujiwara and Takayuki Nono.
• 12. Productivity Gap and Economic Growth under Increasing Returns / Kazuo Mino. 13. Environmental Externalities and Growth / Toshihiro Ihori -- Sect. III. Financial Markets and Globalization. 14. What Happened to Asia? / Paul Krugman. 15. International Adjustment under Capital Mobility / Michihiro Ohyama. 16. International Factors in the Recessions of the Early Nineties / David K. Backus and Jordi Gali. 17. Empirical Analyses of Exchange Rate Arrangements / Masahiro Kawai and Shigeru Akiyama. 18. The Structure of Risks and the Portfolio of Pension Funds / Shigemori Ishida and Shigenori Ishida. 19. Emerging Markets in History: The United States, Japan, and Argentina / Richard Sylla -- Sect. IV. Regulation, Distribution and the Role of the Government. 20. Competition in Distribution Channels / Kiyohiko G. Nishimura and Yuji Nakayama. 21. The Deregulation of the Telephone Industry / Lawrence J. White.
• 22. Exchange Rates, Retail Prices, and Market Structure / Fumihiro Goto, Masahiro Matsushita and Takayuki Yamashita. 23. Population Aging and Dependency Burden / Haruo Sagaza. 24. Nation States and Multinational Business in the Global Reach / Norihiko Suzuki and Taisei Kaizoji.

ISBN

079238363X

LCCN

98031549

OCLC

• 39951605
• ocm39951605

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries