Globalization and Cross-Border Litigation

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Globalization and health at the United States-Mexico border.

OBJECTIVES We studied the impact of globalization on the making of health policy. Globalization is understood as economic interdependence among nations. The North American Free Trade Agreement is used as a marker to assess the effects of economic interdependence on binational health cooperation along the United States-Mexico border. METHODS We observed participants and conducted in-depth inte...

Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2007) general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) model (incorporating strategic interaction between firms in a general equilibrium setting). In terms of economic importance, the dominant merger wave variable is a positive global-all effect, i...

Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions:

This paper explores the impact of cross-border M&As on host economies of Korea ; China; and Hong Kong, China. For an intensive analytical research on this topic, this paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the various impacts of cross-border M&As on the competitiveness of the host economies. We apply this framework to the data from five outstanding and considerable cases of each...

Cross-Border Innovation in

Fair trade is a means of governing South-North supply chains to increase the benefits of international trade integration for poor southern producers of agricultural and handicraft goods. Although the approach itself is arguably innovative in comparison with commercially orientated supply chains, many consider that its formalisation within third-party, Fairtrade International certification, has ...