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Innovation, Product-Cycle Trade, and the Cross-Country Distribution of Income

French, Scott - 2014

incentives and the world distribution of income. An endogenous product cycle arises in equilibrium, in which innovative countries …

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Dumping in developing and transition economies

Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004

We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economieshave increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentivesof oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumpingmay be due to...

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The Desire for (Danish) Quality in High and Low Income Countries

Nguyen, Daniel X. - 2011

We estimate the correlation between firm prices and sales within a CN8 product-country-year market. We do this for every market to which at least 16 different Danish firms exported between 1999 and 2006. Approximately 60% of Danish exports are to markets in which the price is negatively...

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North-South Trade and the Evolution of the Environmental Quality of Products

Oladeji, Sunday - 2012

This study recasts the question of the specialization of developing countries in the export of products that use the environment more intensively. Specifically, the role of learning and mutation in trade games has been examined. The results of the study reveal that whatever the learning strategy...

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A Model of Trust in Quality and North-South Trade

Rasmusen, Eric - 2014

Countries have different comparative advantages in quality. These might be due to technological differences, or to reputation differences of the sort described in Klein & Leffler (1981). Reputation differences are particularly interesting, since good reputations are a form of social capital that...

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Technological Progress, Income Distribution and Unemployment in the Less Developed Countries

Rapanos, Vassilis T. - 2004

In this paper we investigate the effects of technological progress on income distribution, and unemployment, in the framework of the original Harris-Todaro model. We study several forms of technological progress that takes place both in the urban and the rural sector of the economy. One basic...

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Neither Here Nor There - Countries that are Neither Developing Nor Developed in the WTO : Geographic Differentiation as Applied to Russia and the WTO

Picker, Colin B. - 2015

employed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO fails to take into account the special circumstances and needs of these … are other scenarios where countries may fall between the developed and the developing world. This demonstrates that the … federalism. This Article also considers the Proposal's applicability to disadvantaged regions in the developed world …

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The WTO TRIPS Agreement and Global Economic Development

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2015

The optimal approach to creating and maintaining an equitable balance in the international IPRs system will likely involve a combination of approaches. The goal of the international IPRs system should be to promote innovation, while protecting against the continuation and exacerbation of a stark...

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Market Power in International Commodity Trade : The Case of Coffee

Igami, Mitsuru - 2015

This paper studies the impact of market power on international commodity prices. I use a standard oligopoly model and exploit historical variations in the structure of the international coffee bean market to assess the impact of a cartel treaty on coffee prices and its global welfare...

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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …

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