International Finance and Trade in a Polycentric World: Proceedings of a Conference held in Basel by the International Economic Association

424 Pages·1988·36.459 MB·English

by  Professor Silvio Borner (eds.)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
General Editors: Sir Austin Robinson ( 1950-80), Sir Douglas Hague ( 1980-6 ),
Michael Kaser ( 1986- )
Kenneth J. Arrow and Michael J. Boskin (editors)
THE ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC DEBT
Bela Balassa and Herbert Giersch (editors)
ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
William J. Baumol (editor)
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN A MIXED ECONOMY
Ansley J. Coale (editor)
ECONOMIC FACTORS IN POPULATION GROWTH
Bela Csikos-Nagy and Douglas Hague (editors)
THE ECONOMICS OF RELATIVE PRICES
Bela Csikos-Nagy and David G. Young (editors)
EAST-WEST ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN THE CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Marcello de Cecco and Jean-Paul Fitoussi (editors)
MONETARY THEORY AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS
Leon H. Dupriez and Douglas Hague (editors)
ECONOMIC PROGRESS (Second Edition by Austin Robinson)
Martin S. Feldstein and Robert P. Inman (editors)
THE ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC SERVICES
Armin Gutowski. A. A. Arnaudo and Hans-Eckart Scharrer
FINANCING PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Karl Jungen felt and Douglas Hague (editors)
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN DEVELOPED OPEN ECONOMIES
T. S. Khachaturov and P. B. Goodwin (editors)
THE ECONOMICS OF LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORTATION
Pierre Maillet, Douglas Hague and Chris Rowland (editors)
THE ECONOMICS OF CHOICE BETWEEN ENERGY SOURCES
Edmond Malinvaud and Jean-Paul Fitoussi (editors)
UNEMPLOYMENT IN WESTERN COUNTRIES
R. C. 0. Matthews and G. B. Stafford (editors)
THE GRANTS ECONOMY AND COLLECTIVE CONSUMPTION
Franco Modigliani and Richard Hemming (editors)
THE DETERMINANTS OF NATIONAL SAVING AND WEALTH
fosef Pajestka and C. H. Feinstein (editors)
THE RELEVANCE OF ECONOMIC THEORIES
Mark Perlman (editor)
THE ECONOMICS OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE
THE ORGANIZATION AND RETRIEVAL OF ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE
Austin Robinson, P. R. Brahmananda and L. K. Deshpande (editors)
EMPLOYMENT POLICY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY (2 volumes)
Paul A. Samuelson (editor)
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Christian Schmidt (editor)
THE ECONOMICS OF MILITARY EXPENDITURES
Takashi Shiraishi and Shigeto Tsuru
ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS IN A DYNAMIC SOCIETY: SEARCH FOR A NEW FRONTIER
Christian Schmidt and Frank Blackaby (editors)
PEACE, DEFENCE AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Joseph E. Stiglitz and G. Frank Mathewson (editors)
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF MARKET STRUCTURE
Richard Stone and William Peterson (editors)
ECONOMETRIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLIC POLICY
Nina G. M. Watts (editor)
ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND RESOURCES
Edmond Malinvaud (editor)
1 THE MAJOR ISSUES
R. C. 0. Matthews (editor)
2 TRENDS AND FACTORS
Christopher Bliss and M. Boserup (editors)
3 NATURAL RESOURCES
Irma Adelman (editor)
4 INTERNATIONAL POLICIES
Shigeto Tsuru (editor)
5 PROBLEMS RELATED TO JAPAN
HUMAN RESOURCES, EMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Shigeto Tsuru (editor)
I THE ISSUES
Paul Streeten and Harry Maier (editors)
2 CONCEPTS, MEASUREMENT AND LONG-RUN PERSPECTIVE
Burton Weisbrod and Helen Hughes (editors)
3 THE "PROBLEM OF DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMY
Victor L. Urquidi and Saul Trejo Reyes (editors)
4 LATIN AMERICA
Samir Amin (editor)
5 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
STRUCTURAL CHANGE, ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE AND WORLD
DEVELOPMENT
Victor L. Urquidi (editor)
I BASIC ISSUES
Silvio Borner and Alwyn Taylor (editors)
2 NATURAL AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT
Luigi Pasinetti and Peter Lloyd (editors)
3 STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ADJUSTMENT IN THE WORLD ECONOMY
ECONOMY
John H. Dunning and Mikoto Usui (editors)
4 ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE
THE BALANCE BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE IN ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
Kenneth J. Arrow (editor)
I BASIC ISSUES
Jeffrey G. Williamson and Vadiraj R. Panchamukhi (editors)
2 SECTOR PROPORTIONS
Sukhamoy Chakravarty (editor)
3 MANPOWER AND TRANSFERS
Irma Adelman and Sylvia Lane (editors)
4 SOCIAL EFFECTS
N urul I slam (editor)
5 FACTORS INFLUENCING CHANGE
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International Finance
and Trade in a
Polycentric World
Proceedings of a Conference held in Basel by the
International Economic Association
Edited by
Silvio Borner
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Contents
The International Economic Association IX
Acknowledgements XI
List of Contributors and Participants xiii
Abbreviations and Acronyms XVI
Preface XVIII
Introduction xix
Silvio Borner
PART I THE INTERNATIONAL DEBT PROBLEM
1 Alternative Approaches and Solutions to the Debt of
Developing Countries
Albert Fish/ow 3
2 The Debt Problem: From Crisis Management towards
Sustainable Solutions
Franz Liitolf 21
3 Escaping Confrontation: Latin America's Debt Crisis in
the Late 1980s
Edmar L. Bacha 38
Comment Shafiqul Islam 52
Comment Juergen B. Donges 61
Comment G. Matioukhine 67
Discussion on Part I Rene Capitelli (Rapporteur) 72
v
VI Contents
PART II A NEW INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM
4 Prospects for Liberalising the International Trading System
Anne 0. Krueger 79
5 A Developing Country's Perspective of the International
Trade System
Wontack Hong 102
6 A New Approach to East-West Trade
Bela Csikbs-Nagy 120
Comment Frank Wolter 132
Comment Henryk Kierzkowski 139
Discussion on Part II Martin Maurer (Rapporteur) 145
PART III A NEW MONETARY FRAMEWORK
7 The Flexible Exchange Rate System: Experience and
Alternatives
Rudiger Dornbusch and Jeffrey Frankel 151
Comment Charles A. E. Goodhart 193
Comment Alwyn B. Taylor 203
Discussion on Part III Julian S. A/worth (Rapporteur) 209
PART IV NEW FORMS OF INTERNATIONALISATION IN
BUSINESS
8 Recent Trends in International Business: A New Analysis
Mark Casson 215
9 Japan's Foreign Direct Investment: Facts and Theoretical
Considerations
Ryutaro Kamiya 241
Contents VII
Comment Sanjaya Lall 290
Comment Hugh Patrick 294
Discussion on Part IV B. Michael Gilroy (Rapporteur) 300
PART V INTERNATIONAL POLICY CO-ORDINATION
WITHIN A WORLD OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE
10 Current Issues in the International Macroeconomic Policy
Debate
Oliver Landmann 307
11 International Co-ordination of Domestic Industrial Policies
Motoshige ltoh 324
12 Time Consistency and Trigger Mechanisms in
Open-Economy Monetary Policy Games
Matthew B. Canzoneri and Dale W. Henderson 338
Comment Jacques Mistral 356
Comment Mart in Hell wig 360
Discussion on Part V Erwin Heri (Rapporteur) 369
PART VI REVIEW AND CONCLUSIONS
Concluding Remarks on Part I
Silvio Borner 373
Concluding Remarks on Part II
Georg Rich 377
Concluding Remarks on Part III
Alexander K. Swoboda 381
Concluding Remarks on Part IV
Charles P. Kindleberger 385
VIII Contents
Concluding Remarks on Part V
Koichi Hamada 389
Overview of the Conference
Kenneth J. Arrow 392
Index of Names 397
Index of Subjects 402
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