Brookings Trade Forum 2005

Tentative contents include: •Offshoring: Threats and Opportunities Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto) •Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI James Markusen (University of Colorado) •Globalization and the Outsourcing of Services: The Impact of Indian Offshoring Rafiq Dossani (Stanford University) •Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective Clair Brown and Greg Linden (University of California, Berkeley) •A Fairer Deal For America's Workers in a New Era of Offshoring Lael Brainard and Robert Litan (Brookings Institution and the Kauffman Foundation)

This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The third edition focuses on policy challenges for the next millennium. Contents include: "Fixing for Your Life" Guillermo Calvo and Carmen Reinhart (University of Maryland) "Verifiability and the Vanishing Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime" Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard University), Sergio Schmukler, and Luis Servén (World Bank) "Short- and Long-Run Integration: Do Capital Controls Matter?" Graciela Kaminsky (George Washington University) and Sergio Schmukler (World Bank) "The Role and Effectiveness of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism" John H. Jackson (Georgetown University) "Regulatory Protectionism, Developing Nations, and a Two-Tier World Trade System" Richard E. Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies) "Trade Policy: What's Next?" W. Bowman Cutter (Warburg Pincus), Richard Haass (Brookings Institution), and Daniel Tarullo (Georgetown University)

Growing economic integration has become a major concern among policymakers and international institutions in the 1990s. In light of this concern, the practitioners and academics contributing to the Brookings Trade Forum 1999 have focused on key aspects of governing in a global economy. This is the second in the Brookings Institution series of annual volumes that provide the most authoritative and in-depth analysis available on current and emerging issues in international trade. The 1999 edition focuses on governing in a global economy. Contents include: "Policies in a Globalized Economy" by Paul R. Krugman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The Domestic Political Resistance to U.S. Global Leadership" by I. M. Destler, University of Maryland and Institute for International Economics "The Future of the World Trade Organization" by Sylvia Ostry, University of Toronto "Fin de Siècle Déjà Vu: Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hundred Years Ago?" by Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, and Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College "Governing the Global Economy: Does One Architectural Style Fit All?" by Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The fourth edition focuses on the issues and implications of globalization. Contents include: "Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility" Robert P. Flood (International Monetary Fund) and Nancy Marion (Dartmouth College) "The Impossible Duo? Globalization and Monetary Independence in Emerging Markets" Andrés Velasco (Harvard University) "The Adoption of International Labor Standards Conventions: Who, When, and Why?" Nancy H. Chau and Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University) "The Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preferences: International Survey Evidence" Kevin O'Rourke and Richard Sinnott (Trinity College, Dublin) "Borders, Trade, and Welfare" James E. Anderson (Boston College) and Eric van Wincoop (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms Gordon Hanson (University of Michigan), Raymond J. Mataloni Jr. (BEA), and Matthew J. Slaughter (Dartmouth College) 2002, 6 x 9, 300 pp. paper, 0-8157-1575-7, $24.95 / £18.50 (ISSN 1520-5479)

The Brookings Institution introduces a series of annual volumes that provide the most authoritative and in-depth analysis available on current and emerging issues in international trade. Each edition will present a series of papers on a particular theme prepared by leading experts in the field. Discussions of the papers by other leading trade practitioners will also be included. This first edition focuses on private practices and trade policy, examining the future of international rules on antidumping and competition. Contents include: •"Antidumping and Antitrust: What Problems Does Each Address?" by Alan Sykes, University of Chicago •"Antidumping: What Does the Evidence Show?" by Bobby Willig, Princeton University •"Unilateral and Bilateral Experience" by Merit Janow, Columbia University "Regional Agreements" by Bernard Hoekman, The World Bank •"Multilateralizing Competition Policy Conventions: Foundations and Guidelines" by J. David Richardson, Syracuse University •"Political Economy of Competition Policies" by I.M. Destler, University of Maryland

"Brookings Trade Forum is a series of annual volumes that provide authoritative and in-depth analysis on current and emerging issues in international economics ... This fifth issue examines the recent currency crises, with edited versions of the papers and comments presented at a conference held at the Brookings Institution, May 2, 2002"--

Provides comprehensive analysis on emerging issues of international trade and economics. This volume focuses on the topic of labor markets.

Contains the papers and discussions from the Forum held on 15-16 May 2003. Focuses on implications of higher foreign competition, as developing countries get increasingly exposed to the global market. Considers the impact on labour standards, such as issues of minimum wage laws in Indonesia. Discusses the reform of Mozambique's cashew sector, and the persistent problem of sovereign debt crisis.

Provides comprehensive analysis on emerging issues of international trade and economics. This volume focuses on the topic of labor markets.