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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services
Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …
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The Doha Development Agenda : What's on the Table?
Martin, Will; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
The outlines of a potential agreement, emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market access in goods and services; improved market access in agriculture and manufacturing; and the mobilization of resources to deal with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552463
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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries
Bown, Chad P. - 2012
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553835
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Trade Facilitation and Country Size
Amin, Mohammad; Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - 2014
It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the...
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Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade : New Estimates for Central Asian Countries
Grigoriou, Christopher - 2012
This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). The panel structure of the dataset makes it possible to control for country-pair specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552782
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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings
Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2012
subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554135
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A Decade after the 2009 Global Recession : Macroeconomic and Financial Sector Policies
Koh, Wee Chian; Yu, Shu - 2020
Unprecedented monetary policy accommodation in advanced economies and a large, coordinated fiscal stimulus by G20 countries helped to support a solid rebound in global output right after the 2009 Global Recession. However, global growth subsequently slowed to a sluggish pace by pre-recession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012568123
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Crises, Capital Controls, and Financial Integration
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of capital controls and crises on international financial integration, using data on stocks from emerging economies that trade in domestic and international markets. The cross-market premium (the ratio between the domestic and international market price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552205
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Banking Sector Crises and Inequality
Honohan, Patrick - 2012
An apparent temporary narrowing of income inequality has been observed during several recent banking crises. But it would be a mistake to conclude that such crises don't matter for the poor. For one thing, the correlation is not strong, and the opposite pattern has also been present. Besides,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554117
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The Social Impact of Financial Crises : Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis
Otker-Robe, Inci; Podpiera, Anca Maria - 2014
economic effects. The financial crisis that hit the world economy in 2008-2009 has transformed the lives of many individuals … financial system continue around the world, the challenge for policy makers is to incorporate the lessons from the failures to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560810