Christian Volpe Martincus

Jeffry Frieden

Jorge Cornick

Thomas Reardon

Kun Li

Ernesto H. Stein

Juan S. Blyde

Mauricio Mesquita Moreira

Federico Merchán

Danielle Trachtenberg

Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc

Rzavan Vlaicu

Víctor Zuluaga

Tomás Bril-Mascarenhas

Sergio Ardila

Piero Ghezzi

Thirty years after the region embarked on large-scale liberalization, trade policy could have been expected to become all but irrelevant. Instead, a mismatch between expectations and what could realistically be delivered set the stage for much of the disappointment, skepticism, and fatigue regarding trade policy in the region, particularly in the early 2000s. By setting the bar unrealistically high, governments and analysts made trade policies an easy target for special interests that were hurt by liberalization and for those ideologically opposed to free trade. The most immediate victims were the more tangible growth and welfare gains, whose relevance was lost amid the noise of grandiose visions.

What Global Integration Can Do for Latin America and the Caribbean

Trading Promises for Results

Barry Eichengreen

Jürgen v. Hagen

In this volume, a group of distinguished economists, political scientists, and sociologists analyze the political economy of European integration. The authors evaluate recent developments in European politics and institutions. They consider the current situation and prospects for the future of an integrated Europe. This book will be of great interest to observers, scholars, and students of European economic and political affairs, macroeconomic policy, institutional analysis, and comparative and international political economy. The book is unique in combining perspectives from economics and political science and provides in-depth analysis of the new European institutions. It is published in conjunction with "Monetary and Fiscal Policy in an Integrated Europe" by the same editors.

Politics and Institutions in an Integrated Europe

This book, first published in 1987, examines American international finance and banking, and the affect that the United States had in the world economy. This book will be of interest to students of finance and economics.

The Politics of American International Finance

Banking on the World

Jeffry Frieden

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