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financial policies that contributed to the imbalances. The inability to manage these issues at the international level reflects … activities — negotiations, rule-making and dispute settlement — to deal with trade imbalances and with the main factors leading …-up of unsustainable imbalances. Second, in the context of a broad international effort to coordinate macroeconomic, exchange …
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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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In this paper we discuss the global negotiations now underway and aimed at achieving new climate change mitigation and … ongoing global negotiations on climate change and further rounds will almost certainly follow. We highlight both the vast … the negotiations is between OECD countries on the one hand, and lower wage, large population, rapidly growing countries …
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lobbying and inherently protectionist government preferences. Moreover, new international political externalities emerge that …
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implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well …
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This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a …
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This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on...
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countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …
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Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than in others? Employing an original panel dataset that spans four different years (1991, 2003, 2007 and 2012) we find that budget centralization has a negative and significant...
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