International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic
Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption …

The acronym 'BRIC'was coined in 2001 to describe the largest and most promising
emerging markets outside the established, post-war, high-income economies. The nominal …

As the Eurozone faces an uncertain future and Obama struggles to demonstrate that
America still has a superpower status, this book challenges the widespread perception that …

In March 2010, the Europe 2020 strategy was released as the follow-up to the very
ambitious Lisbon Strategy. Like its predecessor, the strategy aims to increase Europe's …

The economic and financial crisis opened a window of opportunity to place the Single
Market back on top of the European agenda as part of a two‐tiered crisis response, which …

The 2008 global crisis seems to have departed radically from the prevailing neoliberal
ideology and practice concerning states' minimal involvement in the economy. This article is …

GPA had a main objective from its very beginning: confronting discrimination between
bidders on national or geographical grounds and opening the system up to greater …

This study explores the empirical validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for China in the
presence of structural breaks. As such, we employ a recently proposed multiple-break …

Despite the onset of the current economic crisis there has been no significant move towards
protectionism amongst most of the world's economies. Although rational institutionalist …

This paper interprets China's overall trade policy since its accession to the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) almost a decade ago, and more recently in the wake of the global …