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Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

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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Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D

Blume-Kohout, Margaret - 2009

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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The Political Economy of Weak Treaties

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

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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U.S.-Based Private Voluntary Organizations : Religious and Secular Pvos Engaged in International Relief & Development

McCleary, Rachel M.; Barro, Robert J. - 2021

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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The Environmental Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies

Davis, Lucas W. - 2016

quantifies the external costs of global fuel subsidies using the latest available data and estimates from the World Bank and …

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Payment for Environmental Services : Hypotheses and Evidence

Alston, Lee J. - 2013

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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The Economic Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies

Davis, Lucas W. - 2013

the latest available data from the World Bank, finding that road-sector subsidies for gasoline and diesel totaled $110 …

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Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies : The Case of World Shipbuilding

Kalouptsidi, Myrto - 2014

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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Learning by Ruling and Trade Disputes

Maggi, Giovanni - 2017

Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes interpreted as symptoms of a dispute resolution system in decline. In this paper we propose a theory that can explain these trends as a result of judicial learning; thus according to...

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Gatt-Think

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a trade agreement. In both the traditional economic and the political-economy approaches to the study of trade...

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