international technology diffusion, trade, cross-country productivity differences, financial development and fluctuations. In many …

This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in … the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect … support the major arguments for and against the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS …

favours openness to trade at an early stage of development, while an autocrat complying with the preferences of capitalists … chooses to shelter the economy from trade. The trade regime interacts with economic institutions, and with policies on capital … economy attractive to foreign investors. Allowing for trade and foreign capital inflows are thus complementary policies that …

environmental externalities. A model of monopolistic competition inspired by the recent trade literature shows that the profits …

North-South foreign direct investment (FDI) is frequently viewed as a process in which jobs relocate from the North to …. I solve the model analytically without trade costs and imitation of products in the South. For the version with trade …