This volume consists of 15 chapters grouped into five parts: "International Competition," "International Factor Movements," "Environment," "Taxes and Social Security," "Money and Finance," written by economists, econometricians, statisticians, and lawyers of the University of Konstanz, Germany. They cooperate to apply interdisciplinary analysis of the processes of globalization resulting from interactions of two kinds of complex changes: growth and structural transformation of international transactions of goods, services, factors of production, technology, financial assets; and changes of the international institutional framework within these transactions take place.