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This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...
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In 2015, export supplies of food stuffs to Russia from the countries subject to embargo decreased by 66% compared to 2013. However, the negative effect on the economy of these countries was limited. Total export of food stuffs in monetary terms fell barely by 7% and it was redirected to other...
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rule making in the World Trade Organisation, in particular around patent, plant variety protection, trademark, copyright …
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Covid-19 crisis have revealed the most fragile social and economic aspects worldwide while confronting this overpowering collective challenge, yet having more impact on zones already vulnerable before pandemic broke in the first wave. Covidemia affected the agricultural sector in EU in the...
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Closing the loopholes of downstream application of the Capper-Volstead exemption in the food system and pay for delay in pharmaceuticals is an important advance in US and EU antitrust norms. First, pay-for-delay conduct has been harmful for pharmaceuticals customers. After ten years of...
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We analyze the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity growth in Kenya’s manufacturing sector, using a … panel spanning 8 years; 1992-1999. Our analysis reveals that liberalizing trade generates high productivity improvements in … significantly increases firm-level productivity in the manufacturing sector by 5.7%. When we examine this effect on the firm’s share …
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We analyze the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity growth in Kenya's manufacturing sector, using a … panel spanning 8 years; 1992-1999. Our analysis reveals that liberalizing trade generates high productivity improvements in … significantly increases firm-level productivity in the manufacturing sector by 5.7%. When we examine this effect on the firm's share …
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to the World Trade Organization. We find that trade liberalization has not switched firms away from exercising product …
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channel through which trade liberalization measures enhance overall industrial productivity by triggering the exit of low-productivity … productivity rates in Korea since the 1990s. First, this analysis reveals that since the 1990s, the TFP of the tradable sector …
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