A guide to the increasingly important effects of the interaction between globalisation and various different forms of regional economic integration.

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction Stephane Dees, Filippo di Mauro and Warwick McKibbin; 1. International linkages in the context of global and regional integration Stephane Dees, Filippo di Mauro and Warwick McKibbin; 2. Trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries and China: has it reached potential? Matthieu Bussiere and Bernd Schnatz; 3. Patterns and determinants of production fragmentation in world manufacturing trade Prema-chandra Athukorala and Nobuaki Yamashita; 4. Going global: trade, internationalisation of production and domestic performance of Euro area firms Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg and Daria Taglioni; 5. Globalisation and the trade channel in the Euro area Robert Anderton and Filippo di Mauro; 6. Gauging the labour market effects of international trade openness: an application to the US manufacturing sector Isabel Vansteenkiste and Paul Hiebert; Index.