This paper aims to analyze topics within the international classification of goods and services (NICE classes) applied for the registration of trademarks at the EUIPO. This is accomplished by introducing a more fine-grained classification of trademarks as a "sub-section" of the rather rough NICE...

This dissertation exploits fine-grained trade data to study how the evasion of trade sanctions may be detected, which factors determine the utilisation of free trade agreements, and how to improve the quality of intertemporal product-level trade data.

Los acuerdos comerciales modifican las condiciones de competencia de los sectores transables de una economía, generando ganadores y perdedores. Es más, los efectos de una determinada expansión o contracción de la producción suelen ser muy diferentes según el tipo de producción afectada....

Trade classifications are a necessary prerequisite for the compilation of trade statistics, and they should - beyond that - be regarded as valuable base for the definition of shared controlled vocabularies for linked business data that deal with import, export etc. The Standard International...