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International Standards and International Trade : Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2012
methodological challenges by measuring standardization via national penetration of ISO 9000, allowing standardization to manifest via …-signaling augmenting country-pair trade. Yet, ISO-rich nations (most notably European) benefit the most from standardization, while ISO …
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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our framework highlights a number of novel results. First, standardization is … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462712
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Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni - 2009
We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463189
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Antidumping and Retaliation Threats
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2001
This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for foreign government retaliation under the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT/WTO system,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470140
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GATT, Dispute Settlement and Cooperation
Kovenock, Dan - 1992
This paper analyzes GATT and its dispute settlement procedure (DSP) in the context of a supergame model of international trade featuring both explicit and implicit agreements. An explicit agreement, such as GATT, may be violated at some positive cost in addition to retaliatory actions that might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474908
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Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility : Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
Gross, Daniel P. - 2019
Collusion is widely condemned for its negative effects on consumer welfare and market efficiency. In this paper, I show that collusion may also in some cases facilitate the creation of unexpected new sources of value. I bring this possibility into focus through the lens of a historical episode...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480205
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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
Delcamp, Henry R. - 2012
incentives to invest in R&D by internalizing potential externalities. They may also enhance efficiency of standardization by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460481
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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability : Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets
Genakos, Christos - 2011
When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by "restoring" second degree price discrimination. In...
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International economic cooperation
Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1988 - [Nachdr.]
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International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability
Rogoff, Kenneth - 1999
This paper asks how recent developments in research on banking and sovereign lending can help inform the debate on choosing a new international financial architecture. A broad range of plans is considered, including a global lender of last resort facility, an international bankruptcy court, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471525