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Thinking about tipping provides a novel perspective on finding a way forward in climate negotiations and suggests an alternative to the current framework of negotiating a global agreement on reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Recent work on non-cooperative games shows games with increasing...
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telecoms liberalization for the US, Europe, Canada, and the Rest of the World using the framework developed in the paper shows …
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We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
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World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That …
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Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS … different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" components of RTAs on the service trade . The results of the empirical … "service" RTA) can increase the bilateral service trade between the trading-pairs significantly. (2) almost all the "GATS …
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global turnover of London, the world's largest trading venue, by as much as one-third …
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Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is small, for two reasons. First, services account for...
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In this paper, we use a unique dataset on the distribution of output and demand across regions of the United States to estimate trade costs for 969 service and manufacturing industries. Our estimation method is a natural extension of the gravity model of trade and identifies trade costs in the...
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(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods … trade reflecting GATT (1994) are restricted to trade that crosses borders. Service trade, however, under GATS mode 3 … them is the present mixed GATT and GATS basis; another is trade including foreign affiliate sales, and a final one excludes …
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The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
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