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the EU, which is one of the largest traders and one of the biggest contributors to MTL. We empirically address two …? Second, the EU being a large trading partner in such agreements, does reciprocity matter for giving meaningful preferential … when the EU negotiates with the developed partners but it does not matter when it negotiates with the developing partners …
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This study covers “tapering scale” mechanism in hospital payments, i.e. mechanisms linking unit prices to the volume of services produced. This paper begins with an overview of hospital services and hospital payment methods in OECD countries, focusing more specifically on DRG-based payment....
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This paper addresses the impact of Multilateral Trade Liberalisation (MTL) on the preferential tariffs granted by the United States. For a given MFN tariff, we model the preferential tariff with a simple linear functional form. We take MTL of the US as known to the world by the end of Uruguay...
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In part I of this paper, we have presented a general treatment of the welfare effect of an eastern EU enlargement on … transactions with the EU. The model allows us to take a quantitative view on both the costs and integrations gains of en eastern …
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Numerical simulation exercises to analyze the impacts of potential changes in non-tariff policies commonly use ad valorem equivalent tariff treatment even though estimated impacts using explicit model representation and ad valorem equivalent treatments will differ. The difficulty for modellers...
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Introduction -- Alternatives to LCRS -- Survey and case studies -- Healthcare sector in Brazil -- Wind turbines in Canada -- The automobile industry in China -- Solar cells and modules in India -- Oil and gas in Nigeria -- Not buying it: buy American/buy America -- Conclusions and recommendations
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