The impact of rising global trade and investment remains one of the most controversial topics among academics, policymakers and the public in general. This book written by international economists Francisco L Rivera-Batiz and Luis A Rivera-Batiz offers a collection of articles outlining the diverse consequences of trade liberalization and the elimination of barriers to international capital flows. The co-editors present a rich discussion of the theoretical approaches and empirical evidence available in economics to analyze globalization and its effects on growth, poverty and income distribution. Specifically, the book chapters examine how economic integration influences technological change and growth, the effects on poverty, income distribution and economic development, the consequences of liberalizing foreign direct investment, the impact of capital flows on emerging markets, and the role played by public sector governance and policies on trade and investment liberalization. Overall, this volume adopts diverse scientific approaches in analyzing globalization and its consequences.
Sample Chapter(s)
Introduction
Chapter 1: Economic Integration and Endogenous Growth
Contents:
- International Trade, Technological Change and Economic Growth:
- Economic Integration and Endogenous Growth
- International Trade with Endogenous Technological Change
- GATT, Trade and Growth
- Integration among Unequals
- The Economics of Technological Progress and Endogenous Growth in Open Economies
- Trade, Increasing Returns and Economic Geography:
- Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition, and Agglomeration Economies in Consumption and Production
- Geography, Trade Patterns, and Economic Policy
- Public Sector Governance, Capital Flows and Economic Growth:
- Democracy, Governance, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence
- Political Institutions, Capital Flows and Developing Country Growth: An Empirical Investigation
- International Financial Liberalization, Corruption, and Economic Growth
- The East Asian Crisis and the Anatomy of Emerging Market Disease
- The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment:
- Foreign Ownership, Non-Traded Goods and the Effects of Terms of Trade Changes on National Welfare
- Foreign Capital and the Contractionary Impact of Currency Devaluation, with an Application to Jamaica
- The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment in the Presence of Increasing Returns due to Specialization
- Europe 1992, and the Liberalization of Direct Investment Flows: Services versus Manufacturing
Readership: Graduate students, researchers and policymakers interested in globalization, international and development fields.
Francisco L Rivera-Batiz is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Education and an Affiliate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Dr Rivera-Batiz received his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has held teaching or research appointments at various universities, including the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University in New Brunswick and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Dr Rivera-Batiz has carried out extensive research in the fields of development economics and international trade and finance. His textbook, International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics, co-authored with Luis A Rivera-Batiz, was published by Pearson and has had two editions. His articles have appeared in leading economic journals such as American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Development Economics and Review of International Economics.
Luis A Rivera-Batiz was Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Puerto Rico. Dr Rivera-Batiz received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He held teaching or research appointments at various universities, including the University of California at San Diego, the University of Florida at Gainesville, McGill University and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He was also a researcher or consultant at the International Monetary Fund and the Interamerican Development Bank.
Dr Rivera-Batiz carried out extensive research in the field of international economics. His advanced textbook, International Trade Analysis: Theory, Strategies and Evidence, co-authored with Maria A Oliva, was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. His articles appeared in leading economic journals such as the European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of International Economics. He died in 2005.