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While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector. Economic factors can be summarized by the infant industry argument and we expect industries which are relatively efficient compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels...
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negatively by trade, while the Gini statistic is fueled by the falling labour share and increasing financial payments. Using …
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symptom of an inverted U relationship between growth and inequality. It shows that trade and initial level per capita income …
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Financial development plays an important role in the structure of the trade balance and promoting economic development …. Trade literature suggests that differences in economies' endowments of labour, land, physical capital and technology explain … the dynamics and patterns of international trade flows. More recent literature argues that it is the heterogeneity in …
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for adverse effects of regulatory heterogeneity on intra-EU trade in the pre-harmonization period, which questions the …
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of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive … recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in …-induced effects. We show that the direct, indirect and total effects of trade in EGs depend on the country’s net trade status, the EGs …
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Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …
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This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …
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