Economic Policy 53

by Georges De Menil (Editor), Richard Portes (Editor), Hans-Werner Sinn (Editor), Giuseppe Bertola (Editor), Philippe Martin (Editor)

Overview

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.

• They examine the 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
• Economic Policy is written for all those with an informed interest in economic policy problems
• All articles are submitted to rigorous scrutiny by a panel of distinguished economists from around the world, resulting in a volume of authoritative and accessible articles, each followed by the comments of panel members

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405173940
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/18/2008
Series:	Economic Policy Series , #4
Edition description:	2008 ed.
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

The Managing Editors of Economic Policy:

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

Philippe Martin is Professor at the Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne and CERASENPC and a Research Fellow at CEPR.

Jan van Ours is Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University.

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.

1. The relative sophistication of Chinese exports (Peter K. Schott, Yale School of Management and NBER).

2. Specialization across varieties and North-South competition (Lionel Fontagné, Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 and CEPII); Guillaume Gaulier, Banque de France and CEPII) and Soledad Zignago (CEPII).

3. What explains the proliferaton of antidumping laws? (Hylke Vandenbussche, Université Catholique de Louvain, CORE, KULeuven-LICOS and CEPR and Maurizio Zanardi, Université Libre de Bruxelles ECARES and Tilburg University).

4. Market services productivity across Europe and the US (Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen; Marcel P. Timmer, University of Groningen and Bart van Ark, University of Groningen).