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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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The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger … number produces more manufactured goods than the other country does. In the bilateral trade the advanced country exports …
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industries. It addresses two questions. Has the free trade agreement between the EC and EFTA reinforced the disciplinary effect … competition of the free trade agreement, even though the disciplinary effect of imports originating from the less developed …
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trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of … security. Since changes in security have terms of trade effects, some producers may be hurt by enhanced security. We show cases …
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model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core … effects found in the CP model by making the range of trade costs for which the core-periphery equilibrium occurs smaller. The …
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