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Can trade really hurt? : An empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home country. We illustrate this prospect in a simple Ricardian model for sitations with outward knowledge spillovers. Within this framework Samuelson's "Act II" effects may occur....

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Investor-State Arbitration : A New Threat to Global Access to Affordable Medicine

Ho, Cynthia M. - 2018

This is an introduction to a new development in the international arena that poses a threat to the ability of countries to tailor patent and regulatory laws to promote access to medicine. Basically, certain international agreements permit foreign companies to sue a country for compensation if...

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Does globalization cause a higher concentration of international trade and investment flows?

Low, Patrick; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Suárez, Javier - 1998 - Manuscript date: August, 1998

It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to … greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. …

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Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment Flows?

World Trade Organization - 1998

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Can Trade Really Hurt? An Empirical Follow-Up on Samuelson’s Controversial Paper

Bbitzer, Jurgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home country. We illustrate this prospect in a simple Ricardian model for situations with outward knowledge spillovers. Within this framework Samuelson's Act II effects may occur....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205493

International Specialization and the Return to Capital

Batista, Catia - 2010

How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...

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