HIGHER SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AND INTERNATIONAL …
International Economics & Global Development
MSc in Maritime Economics and Logistics
Rotterdam School of Economics/ Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2003
Lecturers: Teun Schmidt, Hans de Kruijk and Joe Francois
Contents Reader[1]
1. World trade, investment and transport costs: a bird’s eye view ………….……………. 1
• Schmidt, J.A. (2000), "Globalization and Multinational Enterprise", Trouw and
EUR, mimeo ..…………………………………………………………………...…...….. 2
• Irwin, D.A. (2002), “Long-run trends in world trade and income”,
World Trade Review, vol. 1, nr. 1, pp. 89-1 ……………………………………………. 3
• Baier, S.L. and J.H. Bergstrand (2001), "The growth of world trade: tariffs,
transport costs, and income similarity", Journal of International Economics
53 (2001), pp. 1-27 ………………...……………………………………………..……. 10
• The gravity-fabric of world trade and investment, 1990 …...…………………………. 24
2. Fragmentation of international production, MNE, and trade costs …….…....………. 25
• Feenstra, R.C. (1998), "Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production
in the Global Economy", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.12, No. 4 …........…. 26
• International Factor Movements: the efficiency and welfare effects of
cross-border labour and capital movements …….………….……………….……..….. 36
• "Integrating the theories of FDI and trade", from World Investment Report 1996 ...…. 44
• Hummels, D., J. Ishii and K.-M. Yi (1999), “The nature and growth of vertical
specialization in world trade”, working paper ………………………………….……... 48
• Deardorff, A.V. (2000), “International provision of trade services, trade, and
fragmentation”, World Bank working paper ……………………………………….…. 68
3. The performance of rich and poor countries today and in the past .………........……. 86
• UNDP, Human Development Report 2002:
← Table 1: Human Development Index, pp. 149-152 ……………….................…..... 87
← Table 2: Human Development Index Trends, pp. 153-156
← Technical Note: Calculating the Human Development Index, page 253 ….…....... 91
• UNDP, Human Development Report 1991, The Human Freedom Index , page 20 …... 92
• UNDP, Human Development Report 1997, Overview ....…………..........…...……...... 93
4. Global poverty and inequality …..........…….........................................…....…………... 104
• Francois Bourguignon and Christian Morrisson (2002), “Inequality among
World Citizens: 1820 – 1992”, The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No.4,
September 2002, pp. 727-744 ………………………………………………….…...... 105
• Hakan Nordstrom, Trade, Income Disparity and Poverty: An Overview,
World Trade Organization, Special Studies 1999 ……...….……………………..….. 124
• “Roots of development”, The Economist, 3 October 2002 ………………………….. 134
• “Some win, some lose”, The Economist, 5 December 2001 …………………….….. 136
• Wade, R., “Global Inequality: winners and losers”, The Economist, 28 April 2000 ... 140
• “Of Rich and Poor”, The Economist, 28 April 2001 ….……………………….…..… 143
• “Convergence, period”, The Economist, 18 July 2002 ………………………….…… 144
• Birdsall, N., “That Silly Inequality Debate”, Foreign Policy, May 2002 ……….…... 145
5. Globalisation, technology, wages and jobs –stylised facts and analysis …….....……... 146
• Irwin, D.A. (2002), “The employment rationale for trade protection”,
Ch. 3 in: Irwin, D.A., Free Trade Under Fire, Princeton University Press, 2002 .….. 147
• Deardorff, A.V. (1998), “Technology, trade, and increasing inequality: does the
cause matter for the cure?”, Michigan working paper ……….…...………………….. 168
6. Global integration of product and services markets: transport costs and
the law-of-one-price ……..…………………………………………………………...…. 188
• Goldberg, P.K., and M.M. Knetter (1997), "Goods prices and exchange rates:
what have we learned?", Journal of Economic Literature, September (selections) .… 189
• Parsley, D.C. and Shang-Jin Wei (2002), “Currency arrangements and goods
markets integration: a price based approach”, The Brookings Institution …………… 204
• “Trade in services: using openness to grow”, Ch. 3 in:
Global Economic Prospects 2002, World Bank, pp. 69-94 ………………………….. 205
• “Transport services: reducing barriers to trade”, Ch. 4 in:
Global Economic Prospects 2002, World Bank, pp. 97-127 …………………….…... 218
• Clark, X., D. Dollar and A. Micco (2001), “Maritime transport costs and
port efficiency”, World Bank working paper …………………………………….…... 234
• Fink, C., A. Mattoo and I.C. Neagu (2000), “Trade in international maritime
services: how much does policy matter?”, World Bank, DECRG working paper …… 253
7. Infrastructure and development ....……..…………………………….......................…. 271
• David Banister and Joseph Berechman (2000), Chapter 3: “Transport Infrastructure
Investment”, from “Transport Investment and Economic Development”,
UCL Press, London, 2000 …………………………………………………………… 272
• Pranab Bardhan (1997), “Corruption and Development: A Review of Issues”,
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 35, pp. 1320-1346 …………………………… 284
• Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2002 ……………………. 311
• A List of Pro-poor Policies, handout HdK …………………………………...……… 319
• World Bank, The Comprehensive Development Framework ……………….………. 320
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9. Global environment and climate change ..…...............................….........….................. 321
• UNEP and UNFCCC, Climate Change Information Kit,
Information Sheets 1-2, 21-30, October 2001 ……………………………..……….... 322
10. The international commercial system, trade policy and the WTO in
the XXIst century …….............……….........…………………….…………………….... 347
• Deardorff, A.V., and R.M. Stern (2001), "What you should know about
globalisation and the WTO", Michigan working paper .…………….……….………. 348
• Francois, J., and W. Martin (2002), “Binding tariffs: why do it?”, Ch. 54 in:
Development, Trade, and the WTO – A Handbook, World Bank, pp. 540-547 ……… 366
• Hoekman, B. and M. Schiff (2002), "Benefiting from regional integration",
Ch. 55 in: Development, Trade, and the WTO – A Handbook, World Bank,
pp. 548-558 ..………………...……………………………………………………….. 370
• Ng, F. (2002), “Trade indicators and indices”, Appendix B in: Development,
Trade, and the WTO – A Handbook, World Bank, pp. 585-588 ……………………... 376
11. Shifting international competitiveness: patterns of trade, investment and
growth - the example of South East Asia ……..…………………….…………………. 378
• Kwan, C.H. (2002), “The rise of China and Asia’s Flying Geese pattern of economic development”, Nomura Research Institute Papers, August 2002 …………………… 379
• ADO 2001: Box 3.1 Sources of per capita income and its growth ……………….….. 390
• Country competitive advantage - the Porter approach .………………………….…… 391
12. Globalisation's impact on government and ‘country’ competitiveness …...…………. 392
• Dunning, J.H., ed. (1997). Governments, Globalization, and International Business,
Oxford University Press; “Intoduction”, and Ch. 3 “A business analytic approach
to governments and globalization” ………………...………………………………… 393
• Rodrik, D. (1997), Has globalization gone too far?, Institute for International
Economics, Wash., DC; Ch. 4 "Trade and the demand for social insurance" .….…… 406
• How the global economy works: a summary perspective …..………….…... 416
13. Financial integration and the international monetary system;
European integration in a nutshell – building a pan-European house? ……………... 417
• Herring, R.J., and R.E. Litan (1995), Financial regulation in the global economy,
Brookings; Ch. 2 “International financial integration: the continuing proces” ……… 418
• Herring, R.J., and R.E. Litan (2002), “The future of securities markets”,
Brookings Conference Report ……………………………………………………….. 439
• Mundell, R. (2000), “A reconsideration of the twentieth century”, Nobel Lecture ….. 446
• Mundell, R. (2001), “Poverty, growth, and the international monetary system”,
Asian Development Bank …………………………………………………………….. 454
• Post-war European integration in a nutshell: learning economic integration,
1947-58; build-up of the acquis, 1952-1993; legal instruments and regulatory
strategy; evolution of EU, EFTA and EEA ..…………………………………………. 465
• Fisher, Joska (12 May 2000), "From Confederacy to Federation – Thoughts on
the finality of European Integration", German Ministry of Foreign Affairs …..……... 481
• Schmidt, J.A. (2001), "Transition in CEE – the international dimension", EUR,
mimeo, to be distributed separately
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