Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach

Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach

ISBN-10:
1849509867
ISBN-13:
9781849509862
Pub. Date:
08/18/2010
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISBN-10:
1849509867
ISBN-13:
9781849509862
Pub. Date:
08/18/2010
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach

Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach

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Overview

The book addresses the issue of product market integration within the European Union (EU) from a multidisciplinary approach that ranges from economics to political science and sociology. Besides the contributions from academia the book also includes the perspectives of the European Commission - Directorate Industry and Enterprise, and of the business community, thus providing a comprehensive overview of the issue under analysis. The book is organized around three main themes: plural perspectives and assessments of current market integration in the EU, empirical analysis of trade and trade barriers within the EU, and discussion of today's challenges in market integration. As such, the book starts by assessing the functioning of the EU Internal Market and by evaluating the need for differentiated integration in an enlarged and increasingly heterogeneous EU. It then proceeds with three empirical studies relating to intra-EU trade, focusing on technical barriers, on the importance of institutional factors in explaining non-tariff protection, and on the consequences of legal and administrative regulations on trade opportunities. The book ends by presenting and discussing today's challenges to market integration in a globalized world as well as the role of the EU in shaping a new mode of governance in transatlantic market integration. Regulation and governance in integrated markets are recurrent topics in the various chapters. The book presents state-of-the art academic research on product market integration and given its multidisciplinary approach it has distinguishing features that make it unique in the literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849509862
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date: 08/18/2010
Series: International Business and Management , #26
Pages: 206
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Introduction Maria Helena Guimarães Ana Paula Faria 1

Part 1 Market Integration in the EU: Plural Perspectives on EU Market Integration

1 Harmonization and Mutual Recognition in an Enlarged European Union Giandomenico Majone 13

2 Market Making: The History of the Internal Market as a Technicalisation of Politics and a Politicisation of the Technical Christian Frankel 37

3 More Internal Market Without Strategy? Jacques Pelkmans 49

4 The Practitioners' View: A Prosperous European Product Market Is Our Ongoing Business Paul Coebergh van den Braak 65

Part 2 Empirical Studies on EU Market Integration

5 Determinants of Non-Tariff Barriers in Intra-EU Trade Maria Helena Guimarães Ana Paula Faria Natália Barbosa 79

6 Factors Driving Polish Firms Decision to Export in the Pre-Accession Period: Importance of Technical Barriers to Trade Jan Hagemejer 97

7 Regulations, Standards and International Sourcing: New Evidence from Dutch Survey Data Mark Vancauteren 117

Part 3 Challenging Dynamics in Market Integration: Globalisation and Transatlantic Relations

8 Globalisation and Deep Integration Michael Gasiorek Peter Holmes 139

9 Promoting Transatlantic Market Governance Michelle Egan 157

Conclusion: Product Market Integration: From Multifaceted Approaches to Cross-Cutting Issues Maria Helena Guimarães 175

Index 185

Biographies 189

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