Product Description: Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Economic Policy has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging policy topics earlyPapers are specially commissioned from first-class economists and experts in the policy fieldThe editors are all based at top European economic institutions and each paper is discussed by a panel of distinguished economistsThis unique approach guarantees incisive debate and alternative interpretations of the evidenc...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to investigate how the Euro has affected trade, financial markets, macroeconomic policy making and Europe’s economic performance since it came into operation in January 1999. Features eight studies by leading European and North American economists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is an accessible and authoritative analysis of the widespread use of barter in the countries of the former Soviet Union--one of the most dramatic, but least understood, aspects of the region's tortuous transition from planned to market economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This report examines the policy of the European Union towards agreements between firms from three perspectives. First, it considers what the literature in industrial economics has to say about the effects of such agreements on competition, and about the consequent rationale for public intervention...read more