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Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the Economics

Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the Economics
Robert E. Baldwin and L. Alan Winters, editors

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

Table of Contents:

Challenges to Globalization: An Overview (p. 1-14)
Robert E. Baldwin and L. Alan Winters

I. The Critics

1. Assessing Globalization's Critics: "Talkers Are No Good Doers?" (p. 17-60)
Kimberly Ann Elliott, Debayani Kar and J. David Richardson


Comment: Harry Flam (p. 61-62)

2. Globalization and Democracy (p. 63-88)
Carl B. Hamilton


Comment: Kimberly Ann Elliott (p. 88-91)

II. Trade Flows and Their Consequences

3. Geography and Export Performance: External Market Access and Internal Supply Capacity (p. 95-127)
Stephen Redding and Anthony J. Venables


Comment: Keith E. Maskus, (p. 127-130)

4. Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers (p. 131-163)
Christopher L. Gilbert and Panos Varangis


Comment: Joshua Aizenman (p. 163-165)

5. Globalization and Dirty Industries: Do Pollution Havens Matter? (p. 167-203)
Jean-Marie Grether and Jaime de Melo


Comment: Simon J. Evenett (p. 203-205)

III. Factor Markets: Labor

6. The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France (p. 209-231)
Vanessa Strauss-Kahn


Comment: Mari Kangasniemi (p. 231-233)

7. The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon? A Survey of the Literature (p. 235-272)
Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Alan Winters


Comment: Alan V. Deardorff (p. 272-278)

8. The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries (p. 279-326)
Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern


Comment: André Sapir (p. 326-329)

IV. Factor Markets: Capital

9. Home- and Host-Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment (p. 333-379)
Robert E. Lipsey


Comment: Vanessa Strauss-Kahn (p. 379-382)

10. Competition for Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: Human Capital, Infrastructure, and Market Size (p. 383-409)
David L. Carr, James R. Markusen and Keith E. Maskus


Comment: Anthony J. Venables (p. 409-410)

11. The Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s (p. 411-467)
Simon J. Evenett


Comment: Rod Falvey (p. 467-469)

V. Macroeconomics

12. Financial Opening: Evidence and Policy Options (p. 473-494)
Joshua Aizenman


Comment: Robert M. Stern (p. 494-497)

13. Openness and Growth: What's the Empirical Relationship? (p. 499-521)
Robert E. Baldwin


Comment: Simon Commander (p. 521-525)