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List of Contributors

Preface

PART ONE INTRODUCTION

Globalization and Spatial Diversity: an Overview

Hirotada Kohno

Peter Nijkamp

Jacques Poot

Globalization and the Borderless Economy: Perspectives for a Twenty-first Century Regional Science

Kingsley E. Haynes

Mustafa Dinc

PART TWO TRADE, WELFARE AND GROWTH

A Welfare Analysis of Regional Economic Integration

Tesshu Koshiba

A General Equilibrium Analysis of International Trade with the Stackelberg Duopoly

Takafumi Matsuba

Makoto Tawada

The Pattern of Industrialization of the South

Masamichi Kawano

International Transaction Costs, Trade in Producer Services and FDI Agglomeration

Dapeng Hu

An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Effects and Locational Choice of Japanese Electronics Firms in East Asia

Suminori Tokunaga

Ryoichi Ishii

PART THREE SPATIAL INTERACTION AND COMPETITION

Regional Cosmopolitanization and the Rise of World Trade Regions

Jessie P.H. Poon

Estimates of the Trade Flows between the EU and the East Asian Countries-a Panel Data Analysis on a Gravity-Type Model

Birgit Nahrstedt

Jie Zhang

Links between Emigrants and the Home Country: the Case of Trade between Taiwan and Canada

Hsianghoo S. Ching

Li-Lu Chen

Monopolistic Competition Estimates of Interregional Trade Flows in Services

Frederick Treyz

Jim Bumgardner

The Region Versus the Rest of the Economy: the Extraction Method

Michael Sonis

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Eduardo Haddad

Regional Industrial Specialization and Patterns of Structural Unemployment in the European Union

John M. Munro

Gustav Schachter

PART FOUR GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONAL POLICY

Regional Development and Interorganizational Policy Making in a Pan-European Context

Fabienne Corvers

Peter Nijkamp

Implications of European Union Expansion for Peripheral Regions

Ronald W. McQuaid

A Meta Analysis of the Impact of Infrastructure Policy on Regional Development

Kenneth Button

Piet Rietveld

On the Relation between Information Development and Economic Development: an Econometric Analysis

Yoshiro Higano

Guoping Mao

Global Opportunities and Regional Strategies: Contrasting Canada's Technology Triangle and Australia's Multi-Function Polis

Paul Parker

An Empirical Study of a Planning Process to Form an Effective Vision for a Region

Yoshinobu Kumata

Tatsuro Sakano

Jisheng Liu

Index