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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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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local …
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Using a panel of MENA countries, this paper tries to examine the interaction between trade reforms and labor market … regulations on the outcome of the labor market. The theoretical predictions on this literature show that the effects of trade … liberalization in any given country are conditional on the nature of labor market regulations since trade liberalization is more …
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This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports’ R&D content …
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issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of education and North-South trade-related technology diffusion (NRD …
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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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