bribery in international commercial transactions Aspects of corruption: its roots and consequences Several questions arise in connection with the increased interest in action against corruption at both the national and international levels. In such interest due to the higher occurrence of corrupt practices, higher detection rates or lower levels of (public, official and business)

Chapter organization Introduction International Labor mobility International Borrowing and Lending Direct Foreign Investment and Multinational Firms Summary Appendix: More on Intertemporal Trade

GPS Groups/Gs There are many international and national groups involved in the deployment of GPS The international organization is the International GPs Service(IGs)

Section 1: Introduction Section 2: UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 1980(CISG) Section 3: International Rules for the Interpretation of Trade Terms, incoterms 2000 Section 4: Contract of International Sale of Goods

Macroeconomic Policy Goals in an Open Economy International Macroeconomic Policy Under the Gold Standard, 1870-1914 The Interwar Years, 1918-1939 The Bretton Woods System and the International Monetary Fund

Contemporary globalization both requires, and permits, the re-casting of international law away from a\society of states \model and towards a model of global society and even global community. By effectively eliminating both time and space factors in social interaction, globalization is changing the nature of global social relations, intensifying the obsolescence of the society of states\model, and demanding al fundamental change in the social theory of international law towards a global society of persons. Because of these changes

Chapter Objective: This chapter continues discussion of international capital markets with a discussion of the structure of the international bond market

§1 Introduction to International trade §2 Trade Terms §3 International trade practice §4 Main trade terms

THE ROLE OF RECIPROCITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Francesco Parisi and Nita ghei INTRODUCTION contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himsel/'6 [A] man be willing, when others are too, as far forth for peace and defense of himself, The concept of reciprocity assumes

When conducting monetary and fiscal policy, policymakers often look be- yond their own country's borders Even if domestic prosperity is their sole ob jective, it is necessary for them to consider the rest of the world. The international flow of goods and services and the international flow of capital can affect an economy in profound ways. Policymakers ignore these effects at In this chapter we extend our analysis of aggregate demand to include inter- national trade and finance. The model developed in this chapter, called the Mundell-Fleming model, is an open-economy version of the IS-LM model. Both models stress the interaction between the goods market and the money market. Both models assume that the price level is fixed and then show what