THEORETICAL CONCEPTS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

Abstract

The classification of the scientific research approaches to the political and economic barriers are described. The causal relationship between integration and political barriers are systematized. The paper describes theoretical study of the political and economic barriers’ effects to the process of the international economic integration. The main principles of "the political and economic barriers to integration" definition are systematized. The generalization of the approaches of the political and economic barriers definition by ukrainian and foreign scholars are carried out. Theoretical aspects of economic (trade) barriers devoted to the works of scholars such as A. Grebelnyk, D. Lukyanenko, Ruth F., R. Baldwin, A. Deardorfa, M. Stern, E. polymers and others. According to the theory of mercantilism state should export their products to the domestic market, but at least the amount of import. So we can say that in this case the government has to implement certain trade barriers, prohibiting or restraining imports. In 1987 Lowrence was the first to use a model of monopolistic competition to predict the volume of trade, and to use data for downsizing and trade flows to determine the country and industry that significantly differ from the assumptions of the model. Lawrence concluded that Japan also has a very low volumes of lower imports related to the existence of trade barriers. Key words: political barriers; trade barriers; international economic integration; monopolistic competition; non-tariff barriers; trade protection.