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China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was hailed as the natural conclusion of a long march that … started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth … approaches have been proposed to deal with the emerging problems. One is to demand that China changes its economic regime. The …
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India and Pakistan are the leading textile trading nations in the world. Among the major sectors, the textile and clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in culture and the importance of the sector in their economies....
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Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs and thereby increasing the gains from trade. Although the use of trade facilitation measures for tackling trade bottlenecks has gained traction in recent times, one aspect which remains largely unexplored...
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Significant measures were undertaken by India and Pakistan to liberalize trade in 2012. In particular, Pakistan's policy to permit all items to be imported from India except for a few items was expected to bring about a quantum increase in India's exports. Similarly, India's efforts to address...
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We consider a dynamic three-stage game played by two regulator-firm hierarchies to capture the scale and technological effects of opening markets to international trade. Each firm produces one good sold on the market. Firms can invest in R&D in order to lower their fixed emission/output ratio...
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The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and … increasing the prices of these goods. China defends export limitations by presenting them as a natural resource conserving policy …
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This paper estimates the direct and spillover effects of two matching grants schemes designed to promote firm-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of projects - the National Productivity and Technological...
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This study investigates the determinants of FDI in Austria, as well as their spillovers to innovating technologies, productivity, and employment, using firm-level data, for the period 2008-2018. The findings point out that a decrease in the costs of trade increases investment in foreign-owned...
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The effect of market competition on firm innovation remains controversial, especially in the context of developing … countries. This paper presents new empirical evidence about the causal impact of competition on firm innovation for Chilean and … propensity to invest in innovation, but this relationship manifests differently in the two countries. While this relationship is …
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