Integrating the Americas : FTAA and beyond / edited by Antoni Estevadeordal ... [et. al].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. INTRODUCTION -- Introduction / Antoni Estevadeordal ... [and others] -- PART II. THE FTAA : HISTORICAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES -- Roots of Latin American protectionism : looking before the Great Depression / John H. Coatsworth, Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Economic integration in the Americas : European perspectives / Anthony J. Venables, L. Alan Winters -- Proliferation of sovereigns : are there lessons for integration? / Matías Braun ... [and others] -- Old and new regionalism : benefits, costs, and implications for the FTAA / Robert Devlin, Paolo Giordano -- PART III: MACROECONOMICS OF THE FTAA -- The monetary consequences of a Free Trade Area of the Americas / Barry Eichengreen, Alan M. Taylor -- Macroeconomic coordination and monetary unions in an n-country world: do all roads lead to Rome? / Andrew Powell, Federico Sturzenegger -- PART IV. NEGOTIATING THE FTAA AGREEMENT : TRADITIONAL AND NEW ISSUES -- Prospects and challenges for the liberalization of agricultural trade in the Western hemisphere / Mario Berrios ... [and others] -- Regionalism and trade in services in the Western hemisphere : a policy agenda / Aaditya Mattoo, Pierre Sauvé -- Tackling international anticompetitive practices in the Americas : implications for the Free Trade Area of the Americas / Julian L. Clarke, Simon J. Evenett -- PART V. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE FTAA -- United States and a Free Trade Area of the Americas : a political-economic analysis / I.M. (Mac) Destler -- Political economy of economic integration in the Americas : Latin American interests / Marcelo de Paiva Abreu -- PART VI. ASSESSING THE ECONOMICS OF THE FTAA -- Do preferential trade agreements matter for trade? The FTAA and the pattern of trade / Antoni Estevadeordal, Raymond Robertson -- Virtuous circle? : regional tariff liberalization and scale economies in transport / David Hummels, Alexandre Skiba -- What has happened to wages in Mexico since NAFTA? : implications for hemispheric free trade / Gordon H. Hanson -- Can an FTAA suspend the law of gravity and give the Americas higher growth and better income distributions? / Bernardo S. Blum, Edward E. Leamer -- Regional integration and productivity : the experiences of Brazil and Mexico / Ernesto López-Córdova, Mauricio Mesquita Moreira -- FTAA and the location of foreign direct investment / Eduardo Levy Yeyati ... [and others] -- PART VII. FTAA AND BEYOND -- Labor standards and the FTAA / Kimberly Ann Elliot -- Environmental dimension of economic integration: the FTAA and beyond / Daniel C. Esty -- Social protection and inclusive trade : strengthening the sources of convergence within FTAA / Luis Felipe López-Calva, Nora Lustig -- Asymmetries and cooperation in the FTAA / Ines Bustillo, José Antonio Ocampo -- FTAA's impact on democratic governance / Mark Barenberg, Peter Evans.