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Trade regulation may never have been in more flux than it is now. Other than the emergence of ‘megaregionals' (such as … finalizing the Doha Development Agenda, increased heterogeneity of interests within the World Trade Organization (WTO) puts into …-making should be analysed in tandem if we are to make any sense of how global trade works. It further advocates for a new theory of …
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Some countries are undertaking, and others considering, self-examination rules to detect whether proposed tax reforms might have a negative impact on tax policy or economic outcomes in less affluent countries. The impetus for this kind of analysis is a loosely articulated idea that states may...
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Tax reform is a constant process in most nations as governments continuously revisit their tax regimes in response to economic, social, and political forces. Domestic legislative processes are the most obvious source of change in the tax system in any independent nation, but international...
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In popular discourse, tax evasion by wealthy individuals is conflated with tax avoidance by multinational corporations to tell a single story about tax dodging and its negative impact on society. But conflating avoidance and evasion muddies the tax policy waters in important ways by turning...
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In this paper, I estimate the impact of heterogeneity in non-tariff measures policies on countries’ global value chain-related trade and its backward and forward components. I first build a regulatory distance index, which measures the degree of dissimilarity in non-tariff measure structures...
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We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … wedges are fixed at their pre-globalization levels. We find that unbalanced financial globalization led to a worsening of …
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much emphasis needs to be placed on pro-competitive regulation to ensure competitive market conditions and argues that …
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aggregate, as a means of structuring regulation as an exercise of ordering power). After a brief introduction, the essay … the Bangladesh Rana Plaza factory building killing thousands. Part III then seeks to extract theory from the meta …
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We compare and contrast two prominent notions of financial cycles: a domestic variant, which focuses on how financial conditions within individual economies lead to boom-bust cycles there; and a global variant, which highlights how global financial conditions affect individual economies. The two...
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The governance of competition on global markets is an open policy question (lack of international competition policy). In this paper, it is analyzed to what extent different types of regulatory competition, which in other regulatory contexts (as, e.g., corporate law) can be beneficial, might...
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