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Chapter 33 Culture in International Trade
Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1141-1182). 2006
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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Bitcoin versus Regulated Payment Systems : What Gives?
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017
In a short period of time virtual currencies have gained significant traction and become an economic reality, with Bitcoin being the most dominant among over 500 virtual currencies. Bitcoin and other virtual currencies present a particularly difficult and unique jurisdictional challenge to...
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Virtual Currencies; Bitcoin & What Now after Liberty Reserve, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox?
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017
During 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department evoked the first use of the 2001 Patriot Act to exclude virtual currency provider Liberty Reserve from the U.S. financial system. This article will discuss: the regulation of virtual currencies; cybercrimes and payment systems; darknets, Tor and the...
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Tourism Policies and Cross-Country Growth : A Disaggregated Analysis
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2014
Using recent cross-country data for over a hundred nations, this paper examines the effects of various disaggregated tourism policy measures on economic growth. Based on standard growth theory, the model uniquely incorporates tourism variables disaggregated across various dimensions of tourism...
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Sharing the economy in tourism and sustainable city development in the light of agenda 2030
Jaremen, Daria Elżbieta; Nawrocka, Elżbieta; Żemła, … - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/109, pp. 1-15
The dynamic development of the sharing economy is clearly seen in particular, in the area of tourism in large cities. There is, therefore, an increasingly urgent need to study its impact on the functioning of cities, especially when they implement a sustainable development policy. Therefore,the...
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How Law Operates in a Wired Global Society : Cyber and E-Commerce Risk
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017
By now, almost every business has an internet presence, and is likely engaged in e-commerce. What are the major risks perceived by those engaged in e-commerce and electronic payment systems? What potential risks, if they become reality, may cause substantial increases in operating costs or...
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Tourism in Galicia : Domestic and Foreign Demand
Garín Muñoz, Teresa - 2010
elaborate two models depending on the origin (domestic or foreign) of the tourists. For the domestic demand, we use a panel of … annual data on the 17 regions of origin of tourists during the period 1999-2006. For the international demand, we use another … annual panel of 24 countries of origin of tourists for the same period. The estimated elasticities suggest that both domestic …
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International protection of consumer data
Chen, Yongmin; Hua, Xinyu; Maskus, Keith E. - 2020
We study the international protection of consumer data in a model where data usage benefits firms at the expense of their customers. We show that a multinational firm does not balance this trade-off efficiently if its data usage lacks (full) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference...
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The trade effects of anti-dumping duties, non-tarif barriers and maritime security : gravity applications
Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai - 2020
This dissertation was prepared by Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp, completed in September 2018 and first published online by LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two...
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