I have used Tieting Su's paper in JWSR as the basis for a discussion
of trade blocs in International Trade and Finance. Tieting provides a
figure (Figure 5) that illustrates his results regarding the degree of
overlap between the German, Japanese, and US trade blocs that he
detected. The three dimensions of the figure are: Intensity of rivalry;
structural rivalry, and consistency of rivalry.
I was wondering whether anyone on the list would be able to
translate the three dimensions into terms that would be sensible to third
year economics students?
Virtually,
Bruce R. McFarling, Newcastle, NSW
ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au