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This paper analyzes the role of the United States in the global economy and examines the extent of global spillovers from changes in U.S. growth, monetary and fiscal policies, and uncertainty in its financial markets and economic policies. Developments in the U.S. economy, the world's largest,...
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As a result of the current global financial crisis, in 2009 the world economy is likely to experience the largest contraction since World War II and the unemployment rate to reach historical highs in many countries. The fact that the current global crisis is originated from the U.S. and followed...
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Realisation that foreign startups have the potential to add new and innovative products and services to the market, bring in investment and create more jobs compared to traditional firms, a number of countries are providing fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, including startup visas, to attract...
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While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector. Economic factors can be summarized by the infant industry argument and we expect industries which are relatively efficient compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels...
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for adverse effects of regulatory heterogeneity on intra-EU trade in the pre-harmonization period, which questions the …
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of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive … recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in …-induced effects. We show that the direct, indirect and total effects of trade in EGs depend on the country’s net trade status, the EGs …
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Since the 1960's, the EU has offered trade preferences to developing countries in a complex set of systems. Broadly … and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). We construct a detailed database over these trade preferences and use it …
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to access and share sensitive patient data across borders for research/clinical trials. As the traditional model of trade …
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related to these concerns and aspirations. However, servicification and particularly its role in trade policy have received …, historic policymaking divides between trade in manufactures and services, between export and import interests, and among modes …
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