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The Benefits of Liberalising Product Markets and Reducing Barriers to International Trade and Investment : The Case of the United States and the European Union
2005
This paper provides an assessment of the impact of a package of structural reforms in the European Union and the United States on long-run trade and output gains accruing to OECD countries. The package includes reforms that reduce competition-restraining regulations, cut tariff barriers and ease...
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Open Markets Matter : The Benefits of Trade and Investment Liberalisation
1998
The benefits of open markets are tangible. In the last decade, countries that have been more open to trade and investment have achieved double the average annual growth of more closed economies. More individuals, firms and nations than ever before depend on the gains from trade and investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446094
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The Benefits of Liberalising Product Markets and Reducing Barriers to International Trade and Investment in the OECD
2005
This paper provides an assessment of the impact of a package of structural reforms in all OECD countries on their long-run trade and output gains. The package includes reforms that reduce competition-restraining regulations, cut tariff barriers and ease restrictions on foreign direct investment...
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OECD Investment Policy Reviews: China 2006 : Open Policies towards Mergers and Acquisitions
2006
China has become one of the world's leading destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, while cross … flows into China. In reviewing developments since 2003, this review evaluates the progress made in developing an effective … institutional framework for cross-border M&A in China, takes stock of remaining obstacles, and offers policy options to address them. …
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OECD Investment Policy Reviews: China 2003 : Progress and Reform Challenges
2003
China has become one of the world's leading destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) since the Chinese … of China's accession to the WTO in 2001, have been an important factor in promoting rapid economic growth and … suggests policy options designed to improve it further. Foreign investors were initially attracted to China by cheap land and …
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Main Determinants and Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment on China's Economy
2000
on China’s Economy. The OECD/MOFTEC Co-operation Programme on FDI was established in the spring of 1999. The present … of its size, China’s “open door policy” launched twenty years ago constitutes a unique and vast laboratory for the study … of major structural changes in China and the world economy. It also provides an opportunity to test the benefits and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444282
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Genetic Inventions, Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing Practices : Evidence and Policies
2003
Few topics in the life sciences today provoke as much debate as the availability of patent protection on "genetic inventions". Some hold that protection is essential to encourage innovation and development of new products. Others argue that patents restrict access to the very innovations they...
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Handbook on Deriving Capital Measures of Intellectual Property Products
2009
The latest System of National Accounts (the 2008 SNA) explicitly recognises, for the first time, that expenditures on research and experimental development (R&D) should be recorded as capital formation. This is a natural extension to the 1993 SNA, which recommends recording many acquisitions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443153
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The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy : Executive Summary
2007
Analysis carried out in this report indicates that international trade in counterfeit and pirated products could have been up to USD 200 billion in 2005. This total does not include domestically produced and consumed counterfeit and pirated products and the significant volume of pirated digital...
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