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of recent EU proposals for the services market. It shows that making more use of mutual recognition in regulation could … increase bilateral trade in commercial services among EU countries by 30% to 60% …International trade in services is hampered by non-tariff barriers that originate from national regulations. Not only …
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This paper examines the determinants of differential employment restrictions applied to foreign vs. domestic firms. We develop a model of employment regulation and test its implications using data from the World Bank's World Business Environment Survey, conducted in 1999/2000. We find that while...
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Services have long been perceived as playing a secondary role in world trade. In particular, the role of services trade … policies and multilateral services commitments often tends to be downplayed. However, in value added terms, services account …-border trade is expanding as a result of technological advances, and the supply of services by foreign affiliates (mode 3) exceeds …
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Services is the fastest-growing sector of today's global economy and trade in services is the most dynamic segment of … disciplines in the context of the Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation. Since the launch of negotiations in the Joint … assistance on assessing to what extent their domestic regulatory regimes are consistent with the disciplines on services domestic …
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Services have long been perceived as playing a secondary role in world trade. In particular, the role of services trade … policies and multilateral services commitments often tends to be downplayed. However, in value added terms, services account …-border trade is expanding as a result of technological advances, and the supply of services by foreign affiliates (mode 3) exceeds …
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When it comes to services traded through the international movement of individuals (mode 4), Regional Trade Agreements …
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countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To … make this point we develop a model in which governments compete for FDI using corporate tax rates and tax bases. The model …
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countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To … make this point we develop a model in which governments compete for FDI using corporate tax rates and tax bases. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307961
The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...
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The growing stock of foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises poses regulatory challenges to the international investment regime. With arbitrators seemingly keen on expanding the jurisdictional scope of investment treaty arbitration to cover a wide range of...
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