Regional Cohesion and Competition in the Age of Globilization

Contents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Globalization and Spatial Diversity 2. Globalization and the Borderless Economy Part II: Trade, Welfare and Growth 3. A Welfare Analysis of Regional Economic Integration 4. A General Equilibrium Analysis of International Trade with the Stackelberg Duopoly 5. The Pattern of Industrialization of the South 6. International Transaction Costs, Trade in Producer Services and FDI Agglomeration 7. An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Effects and Locational Choice of Japanese Electronics Firms in East Asia Part III: Spatial Interaction and Competition 8. Regional Cosmopolitanization and the Rise of World Trade Regions 9. Estimates of the Trade Flows between the EU and the East Asian Countries - A Panel Data Analysis on a Gravity-Type Model 10. Links between Emigrants and the Home Country 11. Monopolistic Competition Estimates of Interregional Trade Flows in Services 12. The Region Versus the Rest of the Economy 13. Regional Industrial Specialization and Patterns of Structural Unemployment in the European Union Part IV: Globalization and Regional Policy 14. Regional Development and Interorganizational Policy Making in a Pan-European Context 15. Implications of European Union Expansion for Peripheral Regions 16. A Meta Analysis of the Impact of Infrastructure Policy on Regional Development 17. On the Relation between Information Development and Economic Development 18. Global Opportunities and Regional Strategies 19. An Empirical Study of a Planning Process to Form an Effective Vision for a Region Index Contributors: J. Bumgardner, K. Button, L.-L. Chen, H.S. Ching, F. Corvers, M. Dinc, E. Haddad, K.E. Haynes, G.J.D. Hewings, Y. Higano, D. Hu, R. Ishii, M. Kawano, H. Kohno, T. Koshiba, Y. Kumata, J. Liu, G. Mao, T. Matsuba, R.W. McQuaid, J.M. Munro, B. Nahrstedt, P. Nijkamp, P. Parker, J.P.H. Poon, J. Poot, P. Rietveld, T. Sakano, G. Schachter, M. Sonis, M. Tawada, S. Tokunaga, F. Treyz, J. Zhang