Supranational cooperation and integration

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Supranational cooperations and economic and currency unions are top issues on the agenda. Questions about explicit and implicit financial equalization between member countries, industrial and infrastructure policies gain importance.&ltBR> Globalization and the expanding information technologies will force reforms both in the EU and in the South American Mercosur. The discussion is organized under four headings: &ltI> Financial Crises, inevitably connected to the advantages of global and liberalized financial markets. Consequences of&ltI> Cooperation and Integration on the -old- industries with respect to economic fluctuations and intra-industry trade. Fundamental changes in&ltI> Information Technologies affect the international capital mobility, the cost advantages of alternative locations, as well as academic teaching and learning.&ltI> Consequences for Labor Markets of the structural transformation of -knowledge societies-."