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The WTO’s Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations are blocked. After repeated attempts to make progress, trade ministers have called for exploring new approaches to negotiations. This has been interpreted by some as clearing the way for plurilateral negotiations between subsets of...
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We provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade in services, using unique firm …-level data on services exports and imports in the United Kingdom in 2000- 2005. Less than 10% of firms trade in services but they … can be found in all sectors of the UK economy. While the services sector accounts for 80% of total exports and imports …
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Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits provide financial security for families who are susceptible...
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creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
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compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …
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effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …
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due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …
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effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …
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A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …
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This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …
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