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On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni - 2008
Formal economic analysis of trade agreements typically treats disputes as synonymous with concerns about enforcement. But in reality, most WTO disputes involve disagreements of interpretation concerning the agreement, or instances where the agreement is simply silent. And some have suggested...
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Antidumping and Retaliation Threats
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Bown, Chad P. - 2021
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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The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
La Porta, Rafael - 2010
In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize this evidence and attempt a unified...
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Attracting FDI in a Politically Risky World
Janeba, Eckhard - 2021
Conventional wisdom holds that lack of government commitment deters foreign investment in developing countries. Yet this explanation is not convincing because some econometric studies have found little support for the role of political risk and host governments can offer upfront subsidies that...
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Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes
Desai, Mihir A.; Hines Jr., James R. - 2022
While governments have multiple tax instruments available to them, studies of the effect of tax policy on the locational decisions of multinationals typically focus exclusively on host country corporate income tax rates and their interaction with home country tax rules. This paper examines the...
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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"
Cai, Hongbin - 2014
Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's quot;Silicon Valley,quot; we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) affect local entrepreneurship and Ramp;D activities upon entry. We find that Ramp;D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate entry of domestic firms into the same...
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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle
Kydland, Finn - 2012
dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is …
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Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates?
Ferraro, Domenico - 2012
This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, we find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly...
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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (Ets)
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2014
little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using …
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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods
Barrett, Garry F. - 2013
Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top … relative to national account is examined. Coverage rates are highest in Canada and the UK. Over the past three decades coverage …
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