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Regionalism is an integral part of the broader economic policy reforms that have occurred in the Western Hemisphere over the last decade. This chapter examines the dynamic effects of regional integration arrangements in the Western Hemisphere on the U.S. economy, including U.S. agriculture and agricultural trade, by taking into account changes in saving-investment and capital accumulation. Thro...

Endowment based economic models with constant returns to scale and perfect competition have been a primary theoretical basis for analyzing political preferences of domestic actors. However, it is well known that such class of model is inadequate in explaining the large volume of intra-industry trade. How do we understand distributive consequences of trade policy of industrialized countries espe...

In the context of economic instability and uncertainty, when more and more companies struggle with financial difficulties to keep in business, it becomes more obvious of the necessity of a sound strategic planning and an efficient management system. Thai is why I believe that a decision support system that could provide early warning signals of financial distress to a company a few years before...

This paper proposes a simple prototype model that describes the complex dynamics of a sophisticated monetary economy. The interaction between the current and intertemporal financial constraints on economic units brings about irregular fluctuations at both micro and macro levels. We use qualitative dynamic analysis and numerical simulations to investigate the interaction between financial fragil...