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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-Invigorating International Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …

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International Data Flows and Privacy : The Conflict and its Resolution

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2018

The free flow of data across borders underpins today's globalized economy. But the flow of personal data outside the jurisdiction of national regulators also raises concerns about the protection of privacy. Addressing these legitimate concerns without undermining international integration is a...

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Dark Costs, Missing Data : Shedding Some Light on Services Trade

Anderson, James E. - 2018

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries, and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to infer border barriers flexibly are often missing for services, this paper derives a novel methodology for projecting output data. The...

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Regionalism in Services : A Study of ASEAN

Gootiiz, Batshur - 2017

integrate faster internally than vis-?-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …

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Guide to the Services Trade Restrictions Database

Borchert, Ingo - 2017

A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy assembled in a comparable manner across 103 countries, five sectors (telecommunications, finance, transportation, retail and professional services) and the key modes of service...

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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The objective measurement of world-leading research

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

measure of, a nation's 'world-leading research'? Following a variant of a method developed in Oswald (2010), I examine … citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK … Research Assessment Exercise period 2001-2008. I conclude that it is possible to produce an objective measure of world …

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The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on GDP and Trade : A Preliminary Assessment

Maliszewska, Maryla - 2020

global pandemic scenario sees gross domestic product fall by 2 percent below the benchmark for the world, 2.5 percent for … world, in an amplified pandemic scenario in which containment is assumed to take longer and which now seems more likely. The …

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Was Brexit caused by the unhappy and the old?

Liberini, Federica; Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly released information, from the Understanding Society data set, to examine the characteristics of individuals who were for and against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy...

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Mortality and immortality

Rablen, Matthew D. (contributor); … - 2007

It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control...

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