Globalization Economics -- Policy Perspectives from the Perspective of Public Economics

Author: Ashraf Razin (Israel), Efraim Sadka (Israel), edited by Wang
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: Due to the increasing economic openness reflected by globalization in an independent economic system, it has both brought challenges and created opportunities—making production factors cross formal boundaries in a completely new and unexpected way. This collection of essays, organized and edited by Ashraf Razin and Efraim Sadka, is based on the papers presented at the 1996 annual meeting of the International Association for Public Finance, exploring global issues in some areas of public finance. The 16 essays in this volume cover 8 major topics, including the international flow of technology, capital flows and exchange rate misalignment, the analysis of income redistribution in tax haven systems, tax coordination and tax cooperation with the "disappearing taxpayer," a political economy examination of international tax competition, immigration of skilled and unskilled labor, and the fiscal factors of monetary unification.