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This paper explores how regulatory responses to emerging IP issues in digital trade may develop at the international level and in particular how existing mechanisms might influence the chances of developing internationally agreed rules in this regard. The primacy of state sovereignty in...
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This paper explores how regulatory responses to emerging IP issues in digital trade may develop at the international level and in particular how existing mechanisms might influence the chances of developing internationally agreed rules in this regard. The primacy of state sovereignty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012884396
Since 1980, a series of legislative acts and judicial decisions have affected the ownership, scope, and duration of patents. These include: the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980; the extension of the maximum patent term in 1994; and the shift from a first to invent standard to a first to file system in 2011. These...
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burden falls mainly on domestic consumers, not foreign firms. Third, by broadening the debate to consider the benefits …
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strives to be utilized as an assisting guide for e-commerce firms dealing with the current pandemic or similar future … pandemics. Precisely, the study ought to answer the overarching questions: 1.) How are e-commerce firms affected by the COVID-19 …, followed by how the COVID-19 situation has affected them and their value chains. Overall, we conclude that E-commerce firms …
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The United States championed the creation of new rules for the digital economy in TPP. Analyzing this effort as “digital megaregulation” foregrounds aspects that the conventional “digital trade” framing tends to conceal. On both accounts, TPP’s most consequential rules for the digital...
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We assess the impact of internet connectivity and digital trade policies on trade and welfare. Using a bilateral measure of internet connectivity, we find a significant positive relationship between the internet and both domestic and international trade for goods and services---at the both the...
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We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
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In the last 20 years, the financial services industry has witnessed dramatic changes, largely driven by globalisation, deregulation and consolidation. Technological advances helped make globalisation and consolidation feasible and encouraged deregulation. More recently, IT has accelerated the...
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Peacekeeping operations, mandated through the United Nations and regional bodies, play an increasingly diverse role in the economic development of post-conflict countries. A key way that missions can use their administrative capacity to support economic recovery is developing effective...
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