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trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …
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What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country ….05% lower in the year 2008 if China had not gained accession to the WTO in 2001 …
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Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized, as they seemingly do not guarantee that all parts of the population have an adequate voice in the established political process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly...
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Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …
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The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …
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An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered “balanced” from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …
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Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...
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In this paper, we merge the heterogenous firm trade model of Melitz (2003) with the Ricardian model of Dornbusch, Fisher and Samuelson (DFS 1977) to explain how the pattern of international specialization and trade is determined by the interaction of comparative advantage, economies of scale,...
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What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country ….05% lower in the year 2008 if China had not gained accession to the WTO in 2001. …
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