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Trade, Social Preferences, and Regulatory Cooperation : The New WTO-Think

Bollyky, Thomas J.; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2016

This paper advocates changes in the corporate governance of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to reflect the decline … in tariffs and other border restraints to commerce and the emerging challenges of advancing freer trade and better … refer to as the new WTO Think. This strategy remains rooted in the original rationale of the General Agreement on Trade and …

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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties

Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2015

Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I characterize the circumstances in which countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as national inventors. I then argue that national...

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Questioning Industrial Policy : Why Government Manufacturing Plans are Ineffective and Unnecessary

Lincicome, Scott; Zhu, Huan - 2022

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising U.S.-China tensions, American policymakers are again embracing industrial policy. Both President Biden and his predecessor, as well as legislators from both parties, have advocated a range of federal support for American manufacturers to fix...

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Information Policy and Genetically Modified Food : Weighing The Benefits and Costs

Teisl, Mario F.; Caswell, Julie A. - 2013

labeling an international trade issue. The U.S. and Canada do not require GMFs to be labeled unless the GMF is significantly …

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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties

Scotchmer, Suzanne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...

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The impact of a trade embargo on quality

McCannon, Bryan - In: Economics Bulletin 6 (2004) 14, pp. 1-7

A trade embargo is a common way to punish a country. The question I ask is what effect does an embargo have on an …

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Entry and Asymmetric Lobbying: Why Governments Pick Losers

Baldwin, Richard; robert-nicoud, frédéric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Governments frequently intervene to support domestic industries, but a surprising amount of this support goes to ailing sectors. We explain this with a lobbying model that allows for entry and sunk costs. Specifically, policy is influenced by pressure groups that incur lobbying expenses to...

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Korea and the World Trade Organization: Problems and Prospects

McGee, Robert W.; Yoon, Yeomin - EconWPA - 1998

The World Trade Organization, which came into existence at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, is in charge of … administering a plethora of new trade rules. The main thrust of the new rules is to reduce or abolish tariffs and quotas on a wide …

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Whither Flat Panel Displays?

Krishna, Kala; Thursby, Marie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...

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El avance de China y la evolución del comercio internacional en Brasil

Dos Santos, Enestor; Zignago, Soledad - In: INTAL Working Papers 35 (2012) 16, pp. 87-107

Aprovechando un nuevo conjunto de datos que incluye el contenido tecnológico de cada producto así como su calidad, examinamos algunos aspectos del flujo del intercambio comercial entre Brasil y China y cuestionamos la postura de que el crecimiento de China implicaría una desindustrialización...

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