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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,...

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Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function : Evidence from International Patent Output

Porter, Michael E. - 2000

production by other countries raises the bar for producing new-to-the-world technology domestically, outweighing the positive …

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The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

Stern, Scott - 2000

Motivated by differences in R&D productivity across advanced economies, this paper presents an empirical examination of the determinants of country-level production of international patents. We introduce a novel framework based on the concept of national innovative capacity. National innovative...

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Is the WTO Passï¿½?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

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The GATT's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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What's Left for the WTO?

Bown, Chad P. - 2015

Suppose that when addressing the question of "what's left for the WTO?," tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...

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The GATT's Starting Point : Tariff Levels circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2015

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Is the WTO passé?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

Delgado, Mercedes - 2012

This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining...

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