List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

Preface

Notes on the Contributors

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

Hans-Jurgen Vosgerau

PART I INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

EC Merger Control and Third-Country Concentrations

Knut Werner Lange

Comment

Markus Wagemann

Global Harmonisation of National Competition Policies

Bruno Kaiser

Hans-Jurgen Vosgerau

Comment

Heinz Hauser

Economic Integration, Corporate Governance and Capital Market Regulation: In Search of a New Model for the European Union

Werner F.Ebke

Comment

Friedrich Kubler

PART II INTERNATIONAL FACTOR MOVEMENTS

European Migration Policy

Kay Hailbronner

Migration Policy and Federalism in the USA

Stephen H. Legomsky

Where to Patent? Theory and Evidence on International Patenting

Joachim Inkmann

Winfried Pohlmeier

Luca Antonio Ricci

A Contribution to the Theory of Special Economic Zones

Albert G. Schweinberger

Comment

Ulrich Kohli

PART III ENVIRONMENT

Economic Integration and Environmental Policy: A Survey of the Political-Economic Literature

Gunther G. Schulze

Heinrich W. Ursprung

Comment

James R. Markusen

Why Everybody Loves Flipper: The Political Economy of the US Dolphin-Safe Laws

Achim Korber

Comment

Jean-Marie Viaene

PART IV TAXES AND SOCIAL SECURITY

International Taxation and Pollution Control: How should Priorities be Chosen in the EU's Tax Policy Agenda?

Bernd Genser

Andreas Haufler

Frank Hettich

Carsten Schmidt

Comment

Henry J. Lischer, Jr.

Employment Effects of Restructuring the German Tax System: A Macroeconometric Disequilibrium Model for an Open Economy in Action

Wolfgang Franz

Klaus Goggelmann

Peter Winker

Decentralised Social Security Systems in Integrated Labour Markets: Theory and Application to the European Union

Martin Kolmar

Friedrich Breyer

Comment

Sugata Marjit

PART V MONEY AND FINANCE

A Monetary Approach to the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas: The Case of EMU

Nikolaus K.A. Laufer

The Impact of Scheduled News Announcements on T-Bond and Bund Futures Trading

Gunter Franke

Dieter Hess

Comment

Gerd Ronning

Locally Weighted Autoregression

Yuanhua Feng

Siegfried Heiler

Index of Authors

Subject Index