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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - CESifo - 2013

violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that enforces them. Moreover free-riders cannot prevent others to copy their …

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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - CESifo - 2013

firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …

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Hidden Protectionism? Evidence from Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in the United States

Grundke, Robert; Moser, Christoph - CESifo - 2014

exports to the United States. This trade reducing effect is driven by developing countries and by refusals without any product … does not prove) the existence of counter-cyclical, hidden protectionism due to non-tariff barriers to trade in the United …

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Payment Choice in International Trade: Theory and Evidence from Cross-country Firm Level Data

Hoefele, Andreas; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim; Yu, Zhihong - CESifo - 2013

-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement …

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Credit Shocks and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Emerging Markets

Romain, Houssa; Mohimont, Jolan; Otrok, Chris - CESifo - 2013

In this paper, we examine the role of global and domestic credit supply shocks in macroeconomic fluctuations for Emerging Markets. For this purpose, we impose a set of zero and sign restrictions within a medium-scale Bayesian Vector Auto-Regressive model. Quarterly data from South Africa and G-7...

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Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in Fast-Growing Countries: The Benefits of Early Action

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - CESifo - 2009

This paper builds on the assumption that OECD countries are (or will soon be) taking actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also get involved in the cooperative effort to reduce GHG...

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The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Developing Countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries and testing for the stability of the estimated elasticities over time. The sample covers the period from 1975 through 2003 for...

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Consumption and Keynesian Fiscal Policy

Schclarek, Alfredo - CESifo - 2004

This paper empirically studies the effects of fiscal policy shocks on private consumption. Further, it tries to determine if the level of government bond yield and the unemployment rate affect that relationship. We use yearly data between 1970 and 2000 for thirty-eight countries, of which half...

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Peer Effects in Program Participation

Dahl, Gordon B.; Loken, Katrine Vellesen; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2013

-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682628

Dynamics and Time Scope of Post War Recovery Required for Compensating Civil War Economic Losses

Nam, Chang Woon; Schumacher, Jan - CESifo - 2013

economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional …

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