I Theoretical Aspects of International Integration --; Impact of Factor-Market Integration on Supply, Demand and Trade --; A Neoclassical Analysis --; The Significance of Human Capital for International Competitiveness in the Face of the Growing Integration of the Global Economy --; Overlapping Integration Areas --; II Aspects of European Integration --; Promoting Economic Integration by the EMS? --; The Belgium-Luxemburg Economic Union --; Linkages Between Monetary Union and Political Union in the European Union --; The Decree on the Eco-Audit by the European Community --; An Example of Legislation in the Form of Deregulation --; Integration Within the Banking Sector --; III Integration Outside Europe --; Structural Adjustment in a Monetary Union --; Some Considerations about the West African Franc Zone --; Deep Integration, Shallow Regionalism, and Strategic Openness: Three Notes on Economic Integration in East Asia --; Divergence or Convergence as a Consequence of Regional Integration? --; NAFTA's Impacts on Mexico.
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This book focuses on theoretical aspects of international integration, on problems of European integration and on economic integration outside Europe. It also serves as a reader on these aspects. The recipient is informed about integration processes on a broad range. Effects of factor market integration, financial integration, overlapping integration areas, linkages between monetary union and political union are analysed. Case studies about the European integration process, about West African monetary integration, about integration in East Asia and about NAFTA are comprised.