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International disputes over subsidies are increasingly disrupting the world trading system. The creation of the WTO was … rules with the creation of the WTO. Our results suggest that, although GATT subsidy rules were typically viewed as weak and … inadequate while the WTO subsidy rules are seen as representing a significant strengthening of multilateral disciplines on …
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This paper investigates the impact of federal extramural research funding on total expenditures for life sciences research and development (R&D) at U.S. universities, to determine whether federal R&D funding spurs funding from non-federal (private and state/local government) sources. We use a...
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In recent decades, democratic countries have signed hundreds of international environmental agreements (IEAs). Most of these agreements, however, are weak: they generally do not include effective enforcement or monitoring mechanisms. This is a puzzle in standard economic models. To study this...
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We have constructed a new and substantial data set from 1939 to 2004 on U.S.-based private voluntary organizations (PVOs) engaged in international relief and development. The universe comprises PVOs registered with the federal government (U.S. Agency for International Development since the early...
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quantifies the external costs of global fuel subsidies using the latest available data and estimates from the World Bank and …
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the latest available data from the World Bank, finding that road-sector subsidies for gasoline and diesel totaled $110 …
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The use of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is not a new type of contract but they have become more in vogue because of the potential for sequestering carbon by paying to prevent deforestation and degradation of forest lands. We provide a framework utilizing transaction costs to...
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strategy to world shipbuilding, a classic target of industrial policy. I find strong evidence consistent with China having … subsidies led to substantial reallocation of ship production across the world, with Japan, in particular, losing significant …
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While many political scientists and diplomatic historians see the Bush presidency as a distinctive epoch in American foreign policy, we argue that there was no Bush Doctrine in foreign economic policy. The Bush administration sought to advance a free trade agenda but could not avoid the use of...
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This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...
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