The USMCA, which was signed on November 30, 2018, contains a high-standard and comprehensive IP chapter and the most notable feature of the IP chapter in the USMCA, is that it includes a separate section for trade secrets in which strong standards of protection are set out. The United States is...

Does servitization improve manufacturing firms’ performance, and in what condition? Following Crozet and Milet (2017)’s seminal work, this study analyzes disaggregated firm-level data that covers 40,000 South Korean manufacturing firms surveyed by the Survey of Business Activities of Korea....