Dynamics of Regional Integration by Prof. Dr. Uwe Walz (auth.)

By Prof. Dr. Uwe Walz (auth.)

Deepening and enlarging nearby integration blocs is excessive at the political schedule, as should be noticeable so much significantly within the final decade of the ecu in­ tegration method. the consequences of this approach were studied greatly. yet, till lately, those reports were constrained to the theoretical anal­ ysis of static results of local integration. The revival of development conception has, notwithstanding, in precept supplied a collection of types and instruments which permit to enquire the dynamic results of nearby integration. while, the "new neighborhood economics" (or fiscal geography) literature permitting to target the distinctive beneficial properties of neighborhood integration and integration blocs has emerged. the purpose of this learn is to merge endogenous development methods with "new nearby economics" versions so one can examine numerous points of the long-run results of local integration in a dynamic common equilibrium framework. it truly is remember the fact that that such an research can disguise merely chosen matters and leaves others apart. it's the objective of the current research, how­ ever, to examine either varieties of neighborhood integration: the dynamic results of a deepening of the mixing method in addition to of an expansion of the combination bloc. this can be performed at the foundation of an research of empirical regularities of local advancements in an integration bloc (mainly within the eu Union).

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By exploring the dynamic interaction among R&D and capital investment in science-based industries, Lach and Schankerman (1989) found an asymmetric relationship between the two variables: the interaction between R&D and capital accumulation is unidirectional. R&D Granger-causes capital investment but investment in capital does not Granger-cause R&D. This strengthens the role of R&D and productive knowledge in the growth process. Technological change contributes directly to the growth process, but also does so indirectly by inducing investment in capital.

Producers in countries outside the integration bloc will not face lower barriers to trade and their imports into the integration bloc become more expensive relative to those of producers in partner countries. Viner pointed out that the net welfare effect of preferential trading clubs (free trade zones, custom unions) depends on the balance between trade creation and trade diversion. This argument remained at the core of all theories of preferential trading clubs. Trade diversion in the course of trade liberalization in the trading club refers to the change of the origin of imports, shifting from the low-cost producer outside the club to the relatively inefficient producer in the partner country.

4KrugmanjVenabies (1995) argue that this monotonicity result stems from the assumption of labour mobility in a regional context. Assuming immobility of labor gives them a non-monotone relation between agglomeration and (international) trade liberalization. Starting from high levels of trade barriers, trade liberalization leads to agglomeration. Eventually, however, continuing reductions in trade barriers lead in their model to a reindustrialization of the periphery. CHAPTER 3. LITERATURE OVERVIEW 46 man/Venables (1996) look at the adjustment costs of such type of processes.

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