This series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. Perhaps it is a sign of the times that economic weapons such as sanctions seem to be as powerful as or more so than tanks. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable in a troubled world with economic booms bursting like so many penny balloons. Contents: Preface; The Economic Expansion of the 1990's; International Transmission of Monetary Policy: Does Economic Size Matter?; The External and Internal Balance of the Convergence Process of Transformation Economies to the EU; Taxation, Monitoring, Sanctioning; Networks and Network Alignment in Firms in Transition: The Experience of Hungary and Slovenia; Trade Liberalisation, Market Power and Performance in Australian Manufacturing; Testing Asymmetry in a Co-integrated-VAR-Based Labour Demand Model: Italian Evidence; Paternalistic Altruism, Life-Cycle Hypothesis, and the Ricardian Equivalence; Dynamic Arbitrage-Free Asset Pricing with Proportional Transaction Costs; Representation of Interests and State Autonomy in the Sao-Paulo Agro-Export Economy; 1889-1930; Economic Sanctions to Achieve US Foreign Policy Goals: Discussion and Guide t