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globalization and stronger protection of intellectual property are analysed. It is shown that globalization leads to more copying of … intellectual property protection has the opposite steady-state effects and thus serves to moderate the effects of globalization. …
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This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...
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aspects of globalization are studied: increases in the size of the South (i.e., countries like China joining the world trading …
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In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …
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In this Paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of …
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This paper constructs a growth model that is consistent with salient features of the Chinese growth experience since 1992: high output growth, sustained returns on capital investments, extensive reallocation within the manufacturing sector, falling labor share and accumulation of a large foreign...
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This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically the relationship between trade and war. We show that the intuition that trade promotes peace is only partially true even in a model where trade is beneficial to all, war reduces trade and leaders take into account the costs of war. When war can...
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