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The latest protectionist trade trends and their impact on the European Union
Viani, Francesca
Artículo de revista ; In an attempt to rebalance trade with China, the United States administration decided in early … escalation of US-China trade tensions. The new tariffs have affected a significant percentage of Chinese exports to the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012532413
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Sophistication, Bridging the Gap, and the Likelihood of Confusion: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
Christensen, Glenn L.; DeRosia, Eric D.; Lee, Thomas R. - 2008
Recent commentary has rightly lamented the uncertain state of the multifactor test for trademark infringement. “This heuristic device is the fulcrum of American trademark law,” yet the courts are in substantial disagreement as to which factors are relevant to an evaluation of the likelihood...
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Assortment factors and category performance: an empirical investigation of Australian organic retailing
Tan, Lay Peng, Marketing, Australian School of … - 2008
The broad objective of this study is to examine how assortment factors and category performance are related within the context of specialty retailing. This study formulates two clusters of research questions. The first cluster of research questions focuses on product assortment in general, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484254
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The Changing Nature of Protectionism: Are "Free Traders" Up to the Challenges It Presents?
Kerr, William A. - 2004
benefits must be balanced against the expected political benefits of protectionism (and their associated welfare costs) when … biased toward protectionism, particularly if trade restrictions are a source of corruption incomes. This article explains the … sources of new appeals for protectionism, outlines the relationship with traditional producer protectionism and lays out the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443941
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Are Standards Always Protectionist?
Marette, Stephan; Beghin, John C. - 2007
potential protectionism, the standard is useful in correcting the consumption externality in the domestic country. Protectionism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445585
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Disentangling the Demand-enhancing Effect and Trade-cost Effect of Technical Measures in Agricultural Trade among OECD countries
Xiong, Bo; Beghin, John - 2011
Domestic technical measures such as SPS and TBTs can enhance import demand via information disclosure and quality improvement, or hamper foreign export supply via imposing sizeable compliance costs, or both. The traditional gravity equation model estimates the net effect of these measures on...
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Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence
Broda, Christian; Limão, Nuno; Weinstein, David E. - 2007
The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to the foreign export elasticities they face goes back to Edgeworth (1894). Despite the centrality of the optimal tariff argument in trade policy, there exists no evidence about whether countries actually...
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Export specialization and economic growth
Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001
Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448494
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The globalisation of the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry : lessons for other countries
Marks, Andrew - 2009
Protectionism played a pivotal role in establishing and nurturing the growth of the Australian passenger motor vehicle … run, protectionism simultaneously led to an inefficient inward looking industry which could not compete against the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481988
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Tariff protectionist measures and Spanish goods exports
Gutiérrez Chacón, Eduardo; Martín Machuca, César
Artículo de revista ; The rise in global protectionist tensions in recent years has, after decades of across-the-board declines, entailed increases in tariffs that are proving detrimental to international trade and thereby affecting the Spanish economy’s external sector outlook. This article...
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