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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 national incentives for patent protection? What is...
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strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint. Importantly, trade costs affect cartel shipments and welfare not …
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Cultural allegiances whether inherited, imposed or chosen, affect economic activity. Many of these cultural layers – ethnic background, religion, language, ideological orientation, and artistic interests – spill over national boundaries. Cultural ideas travel the world along many routes from...
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This paper reviews the relationship between international investment agreements (IIAs) and foreign direct investment (FDI). It is organised in two parts. The first part explores the generic structure of IIAs and highlights the components that are particularly relevant to FDI. It then gives an...
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strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint. Importantly, trade costs affect cartel shipments and welfare not …
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on coffee prices and its global welfare consequences. The results suggest the International Coffee Agreement (ICA, 1965 …
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We study how domestic content requirements in Free Trade Areas (FTAs) affect market power and market structure in concentrated intermediate goods markets. We show that content requirements increase oligopolistic markups beyond the level that would obtain under an equivalent import tariff, and we...
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persistent geopolitical conflicts on trade, technological innovation, and economic growth. In conventional trade models the … welfare costs of such conflicts are modest. We build a multi-sector multi-region general equilibrium model with dynamic sector …-specific knowledge diffusion, which magnifies welfare losses of trade conflicts. Idea diffusion is mediated by the input-output structure …
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increases rents and investment in innovation and other growth enhancing measures. Using data on 4,750 firms across 13 developing … countries, we examine whether protection via tariffs or non-tariff measures (SPS and TBT specifically) increase innovation in … tariffs and TBTs, on innovation. …
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