Industrial Policies and Economic Integration: Learning from European Experiences

by Bianchi; Patrizio

• ISBN13: 9780415149105
• ISBN10: 041514910X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume looks at the role industrial policies play in the context of European integration. A new range of policies for regional integration are developed aimed at allowing a new common market to effectively enter the global marketplace.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii	(1)
Acknowledgements	ix
1 Introduction: economic integration and industrial policy	1	(13)
Modern states and the process of economic integration	1	(3)
Social coalitions, regional integration agreements and industrial policy	4	(2)
Functionalist vs. federalist approach	6	(2)
Actors and instruments of European Union policy-making	8	(3)
Aims and perspectives of the European Union	11	(3)
2 The political economy of economic integration	14	(14)
Economic and political effects of opening a closed economy	14	(2)
Customs unions and structural adjustment	16	(4)
Economic union and the reorganisation of the division of labour	20	(3)
Structural adjustment and industrial policy	23	(5)
3 Public policies in an opening economy	28	(15)
Economic integration and institutional barriers	28	(1)
Institutions to regulate economic integration	29	(5)
Public policies and governmental objectives	34	(2)
Macro and micro industrial policies	36	(1)
Macro industrial policies, top-down and the institutional context	37	(2)
Micro industrial policies, bottom-up and the creation of capabilities	39
Social rules and common objectives	41	(2)
4 Rules and institutions: from the Community to the Union	43	(25)
Evolution and institutional change	43	(6)
Community institutions and their functions	49	(4)
The institutional structure and decision-making process of the community	53	(3)
The budget of the Community	56	(1)
Institutional integration and the principle of mutual recognition	57	(5)
The principle of subsidiarity and the Treaty of the Union	62	(4)
Notes	66	(2)
5 Policies to create the single market	68	(23)
International liberalisation of the economy and structural adjustment policies	68	(2)
Increases in market extension and structural adjustment	70	(4)
The removal of institutional barriers and national diversity	74	(4)
Fiscal harmonisation, public procurement and competition among different areas	78	(3)
The political economy of technical standards	81	(4)
National systems of technical regulation and the principle of reciprocal recognition	85	(6)
6 Policies to guarantee and promote market competition	91	(30)
Common rules on intra-Community competition	91	(1)
Collusion and restrictive practices	92	(3)
The abuse of the dominant position	95	(2)
The regulation of industrial concentration	97	(5)
The development of competition policy after Maastricht	102	(1)
Community rules on state aids	103	(4)
Public-sector firms and the application of Article 90	107	(6)
Liberalisation and regulation of the telecommunications sector	113	(4)
Competition policy, consumer defence and industrial policy	117	(4)
7 Policies to foster industrial development	121	(25)
Industrial policies in the constitutive treaties	121	(3)
Industrial policy in the seventies	124	(2)
Industrial policy in the Single European Act and the Treaty of the European Union	126	(6)
The notion of `European competitiveness'	132	(4)
Districts, networks and innovative systems	136	(3)
Sectoral policies within the European context	139	(3)
Employment, competitiveness and growth	142	(4)
8 Structural policies and cohesion	146	(28)
Regional disparities, real convergence and cohesion	146	(3)
Structural policies after the Single European Act	149	(5)
Territorial interventions and local governments	154	(4)
Objectives, actors and instruments of the new structural policies	158	(4)
Cohesion, deepening and widening	162	(3)
Community policies for small and medium-sized firms	165	(4)
Social policy, human resources and educational systems	169	(5)
9 Policies for industrial and corporate innovation	174	(19)
The Community's old and new technology policies	174	(4)
The creation of networks of innovators	178	(2)
Challenges of innovation and routes of actions	180	(3)
Information technologies and employment	183	(2)
Trans-European networks of infrastructures and European competitiveness	185	(3)
Energy networks and the European Union's new role	188	(1)
The risks of institutional competition	189	(4)
10 Conclusions	193	(9)
European industrial policies	193	(3)
New approaches, new objectives	196	(6)
Bibliography	202	(7)
Index	209