, it is possible to identify a variety of channels through which trade affects the evolution of world income and its …

globalization and stronger protection of intellectual property are analysed. It is shown that globalization leads to more copying of … intellectual property protection has the opposite steady-state effects and thus serves to moderate the effects of globalization. …

aspects of globalization are studied: increases in the size of the South (i.e., countries like China joining the world trading …

This paper investigates the informal labour market in Russia in late 1995 and estimates a labour supply function in the …

-old democracy – Russia. We find strong evidence of very short opportunistic political cycles and provide evidence and explanation … why many previous attempts to find evidence failed. Using a comprehensive list of Russia's regional elections and regional …

Both Russia and the EU are undertaking significant changes in foreign trade relations. Russia seeks WTO accession and … relationship can EU and Russia develop? The Paper analyses the asymmetric trade structure, the unstable and confused trade relation …, as well as both form and content of EU’s and Russia’s options for the future. Conclusions are e.g. that (i) present EU …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … from 1995-97 to 1998-2000. The distance to the frontier is, however, orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in the … Republic, however, this ‘negative spillover’ effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause domestic …