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How do environmental policies affect green innovation and trade? : evidence from the WTO Environmental Database (EDB)

Bellelli, Francesco S.; Xu, Ankai - 2022 - Manuscript date: 4 January 2022

This study investigates how environmental policies impact trade and innovation in environmental goods. We make two major contributions to the economic debate. First, we extract a set of information from the WTO Environmental Database (EDB) through natural language processing techniques that...

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Making (small) firms happy : the heterogeneous effect of trade facilitation measures

Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2016 - Manuscript date: 02 April 2016

, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilita- tion Indicators (TFIs … coherent with the idea that while some elements of the TFA simply reduce the fixed cost of exporting (favoring small firms in …

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E-commerce and developing country-SME participation in global value chains

Lanz, Rainer; Lundquist, Kathryn; Mansio, Grégoire; … - 2018 - Manuscript date: November 2018

Two far-reaching developments have increased the trade opportunities for SMEs in developing countries. Firstly, the … international fragmentation of production has increased the opportunities for SMEs to specialize in narrow activities at various … connectivity, as captured by whether a firm has a website or not, facilitates the participation of manufacturing SMEs from …

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Least-developed countries, transfer of technology and the TRIPS Agreement

Watal, Jayashree; Caminero, Leticia - 2018 - Manuscript date: November 2017

This paper examines the background of Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement, the nature of this obligation on developed country Members that pertains to the promotion of technology transfer to LDC Members and how it is being implemented and how such implementation is being monitored in the TRIPS...

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Reflection on the implementation of Decision on Implementation of Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement : incentive for technology transfer to least-developed countries

Weelde, Jessyca van; Wu, Xiaoping; Chiang, Ting-Wei (Alex) - 2023 - Manuscript date: 13 December 2023

Technology transfer is deeply embedded in the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). Several provisions address technology transfer, which constitute an essential part of the efforts made by the TRIPS negotiators to strike a balance between the...

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Are you experienced? : survival and recovery of trade relations after banking crises

Beverelli, Cosimo; Kukenova, Madina; Rocha, Nadia - 2011 - Manuscript date: March 2011

rate of survival of trade relations by 13 percent. Moreover, we find that both the size of exports and exporting experience …

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The impact of disasters on international trade

Gassebner, Martin - 2006

disaster. We are also able to distinguish between the effect of a disaster on an importing and an exporting country. …

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Costa Rica : trade opening, FDI attraction and global production sharing

Monge Ariño, Francisco - 2011 - Manuscript date: January 2011

Costa Rica has managed to combine an active agenda in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTNs) at the WTO with the negotiation of several Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Such PTAs, most notably those with the US, China and the EU, will boost the share of total exports benefiting from...

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"Expect the unexpected"? : LDC GATS commitments as internationally credible policy indicators? ; the example of Mali

Honeck, Dale - 2011 - Manuscript date: 19 May 2011

There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs) and their often minimal commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS). At a time of urgent need to address domestic infrastructure and investment gaps, this...

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SPS measures and trade : implementation matters

Crivelli, Pramila; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2012 - Manuscript date: 21 February 2012

Using SPS measures obtained from the SPS Information Management System of the WTO and controlling for zero trade flows, we find that SPS concerns reduce the probability of trade in agricultural and food products consistently. However, the amount of trade is positively affected by SPS measures...

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