What does Regional Economic Integration Deliver?

Does economic integration stimulate capital mobility? An analysis of four regional economic communities in Africa ¬リニ

It is well known that high levels of regional integration enable portfolio risk diversification and capital mobility. While there have been a number of empirical attempts to verify the presence of capital mobility using the Feldstein–Horioka (FH) approach, none of them to the best of our knowledge have explicitly examined capital mobility changes across regional economic groupings in Africa, an...

Caveat Emptor: What the New IOM Report Does Not Deliver.

Fertility, Regional Demographics, and Economic Integration

To explain the links between population distribution and economic integration, we construct a spatial economics model with endogenous fertility. A higher population concentration increases real wages and child-raising costs, thus lowering the fertility rate. However, people migrate to more populated regions to obtain higher real wages. We show that mobility across regions results in more people...

Locally Drawn Economic Development and Regional Integration

This dissertation asks the question to what extent functional policy-making authority allocations determine the applying of successful policy instruments by local governments in optimising their ability to provide local public goods given system specific transaction costs. I will develop a model to formulate the contextual relations and the behavioral uncertainties related to the employment of ...

Translational research: what does it mean, what has it delivered and what might it deliver?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW In this article, we review recent developments in translational research in the fields of acute lung injury, acute kidney injury and sepsis with a focus on emerging biomarkers and outline future advances in the field. RECENT FINDINGS There is currently a significant and unmet need for high quality translational research in critical care. The emergence of '-omics' technologie...