Economic Policy 49 / Edition 1

by Georges De Menil, Richard Portes, Hans-Werner Sinn, Richard Baldwin, Giuseppe Bertola

Overview

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Examination of key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level. Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade Organization's current Trade Policy Reviews.

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• Economic Policy has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging policy topics early.
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• Papers are specially commissioned from first-class economists and experts in the policy field.
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• The editors are all based at top European economic institutions and each paper is discussed by a panel of distinguished economists.
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• This unique approach guarantees incisive debate and alternative interpretations of the evidence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405155441
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/20/2007
Series:	Economic Policy Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

The Managing Editors of Economic Policy:

Richard Edward Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

Giuseppe Bertola is Professore Ordinario di Economica Politica, Facolta di Scienze Politiche, Universita di Torino.

Paul Seabright is Professor of Economics at Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, a Director of Research at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle and a Research Fellow at CEPR.

The Senior Editors of Economic Policy:

Georges de Menil works at the Delta Ens, France.

Richard Portes lectures in the Department of Economics, London Business School.

Hans-Werner Sinn is based at the Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich.

Table of Contents

Editors' introduction.

Foreign direct investment and the dark side of decentralization: Sebastian G. Kessing, Kai A. Konrad and Christos Kotsogiannis.

Capital deepening and wage differentials: Germany versus US: Winfried Koeniger and Marco Leonardi.

Age, seniority and labour costs: lessons from the Finnish IT revolution: Francesco Daveri and Mika Maliranta.

Valuing ecosystem services as productive inputs: Edward B. Barbier.