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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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'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …
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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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We develop a Ricardian model to explore the role of trade in spreading the benefits of innovation. The theory delivers … an equation for bilateral trade that, on its surface, resembles a gravity specification, but identifies underlying … parameters of technology. We estimate the equation using trade in manufactures among the OECD. The parameter estimates allow us …
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we present a new model of agglomeration and trade that displays the main …
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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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to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology …
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