The Contracting Organization or World Trade and Payments

The Contracting Organization: A Strategic Guide to Outsourcing

Author: Simon Domberger

Based on over a decade of research and consulting experience by Simon Domberger, Contracting Organization's conclusions have many practical implications. The book develops an analytical decision-making framework for the assessment of contracting options, and has relevance in both the private and public sectors. It will be valuable to all those seeking a better understanding of the outsourcing phenomenon.

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World Trade and Payments: An Introduction

Author: Richard E Caves

Renowned for its precise, in-depth coverage of international trade and finance, this classic text features a balance of the latest research, critical policy issues, and sophisticated economic analysis.

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Covers a conventional line of topics and can serve with some additional material as the basis for a full-year course at the undergraduate level or for separate semester (quarter) courses on the real and financial aspects of international trade. This edition includes revised treatment of regional economic integration, tariff reduction, unemployment, international trade in developing countries, and multinational enterprise. No flashy illustrations, color or otherwise. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	The gains from trade	13
Ch. 3	Applications of the basic model	37
Ch. 4	Technology and international income distribution : the ricardian model	59
Ch. 5	Factor endowments and trade I : the specific factors model	79
Ch. 6	Factor endowments and trade II : the Heckscher-Ohlin model	95
Ch. 7	Imperfect competition, increasing returns, and product variety	121
Ch. 8	Resource trade, outsourcing, and product fragmentation	133
Ch. 9	International factor movements : labor and capital	151
Ch. 10	Protection and the national welfare	169
Ch. 11	The political economy of protection	187
Ch. 12	Trade policy and imperfect competition	203
Ch. 13	Trade controls in practice	227
Ch. 14	Preferential arrangements and regional issues in trade policy	245
Ch. 15	The balance of payments accounts	273
Ch. 16	The foreign exchange market and trade elasticities	291
Ch. 17	National income and the trade balance	307
Ch. 18	Spending and the exchange rate in the Keynesian model	327
Ch. 19	The money supply, the price level, and the balance of payments	353
Ch. 20	Developing countries and other small open economies with nontraded goods	391
Ch. 21	The globalization of financial markets	411
Ch. 22	The Fundell-Fleming model with partial international capital mobility	445
Ch. 23	Fiscal and monetary policy under modern financial market conditions	467
Ch. 24	Crises in emerging markets	489
Ch. 25	Interdependence and policy coordination	525
Ch. 26	Supply and inflation	543
Ch. 27	Expectations, money, and the determination of the exchange rate	573
Ch. 28	Exchange rate forecasting and risk	607