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International protection of intellectual property

Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2002

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the...

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The taxation of financial capital under asymmetric information and the tax-competition paradox

Eggert, Wolfgang; Kolmar, Martin - 2003

This paper examines information sharing between governments in an optimal taxation framework. We present a taxonomy of … alternative systems of international capital income taxation and characterize the choice of tax rates and information exchange … equilibrium with an efficient level of public good provision and complete and voluntary information exchange between national tax …

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Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment

Eggert, Wolfgang; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the level of wage, source-based capital and profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are...

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Task Trade between Similar Countries

Grossman, Gene M.; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2012

The authors propose a theory of task trade between countries that have similar relative factor endowments and technological capabilities but may differ in size. Firms produce differentiated goods by performing a continuum of tasks, each of which generates local spillovers. Tasks can be performed...

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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2012

The authors develop a framework for studying trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated products. In their model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good and make a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution...

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Are intellectual property rights unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2003

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