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The Impact of Trade Agreements on Innovation : Implications for Canadian Trade Policy
Ciuriak, Dan - 2016
impacting the complex and evolving innovation ecosystem in non-neutral ways, favouring some innovation modes (such as patent … draw between trade, innovation and productivity. Canada's performance on all three fronts – trade, innovation, and … implementation of Canada's recently concluded trade agreements be especially sensitive to impacts on innovation; that Canada seek to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002536
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Profit Expectations, and Externalities
Ciuriak, Dan - 2017
Investor-state dispute settlement provisions in modern trade agreements allow companies to bring suit against governments for policy changes that reduce the value of their investments, which include by definition expected profits. While these treaties also provide that the mere fact that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967584
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Issues in Modelling the Mega-Regionals
Ciuriak, Dan - 2016
Modern economic partnership agreements like the TPP, TTIP, and RCEP address a wide range of areas of commercial regulation with varying levels of commitments. Estimates of their impacts vary widely, raising questions about the models and modelling protocols used to derive them. Issues of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978734
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Better In than Out? Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Ciuriak, Dan - 2016
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) promises to have a modest impact on Canada, according to ground breaking research from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Better in than Out? Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” authors Dan Ciuriak, Ali Dadkhah, and Jingliang Xiao, find that some sectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993987
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New-New Trade Policy
Ciuriak, Dan; Lapham, Beverly; Wolfe, Robert; … - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011
When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don`t trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919581
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The Impact of Diplomatic Representation Abroad on Canada’s Exports
Ciuriak, Dan - C. D. Howe Institute
“Government-to-government” relations, underpinned by high-level Canadian representation in foreign nations, such as an embassy, significantly boost the level of Canadian exports to those countries, according to a new C. D. Howe Institute report. In the study, entitled “The Impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010855063
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New-new trade policy
Ciuriak, Dan; Lapham, Beverly; Wolfe, Robert; … - 2011
When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don't trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290445
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New-new trade policy
Ciuriak, Dan; Lapham, Beverly J.; Wolfe, Robert; … - 2011
When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don't trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989498
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Learning by Exporting : A Working Hypothesis
Ciuriak, Dan - 2016
Case studies, anecdotal evidence and theory suggest that firms obtain valuable knowledge inputs from engaging in exporting. Yet the prevailing consensus is that good firms self-select into exporting while the evidence for an additional gain in productivity from entering into exporting –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008511
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Policy Implications of Heterogeneous Firms Trade Theory
Ciuriak, Dan - 2013
trade agreements, trade promotion policies, and a number of policy interfaces including trade and innovation and trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094037