The dominant perspective in discussions of labour and environmental standards and globalization is that of North-South competition and its impact on Northern standards. This paper presents an alternative perspective, that of South-South competition to export to the North and its impact on...

Developing countries are often seen as unquestionable beneficiaries in the phenomenal rise of global value chains in international trade. Offshoring-the cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services which facilitate country-level specialization in subsets of production tasks-enables an...

Available evidence, though limited to the organized sector only, suggests that FDI generally flowing in with MNE activities or FIIs generate technological and market access spillovers for firms outside the core group in destination countries. We investigate the organizational link between formal...

Introduction / Keith E. Maskus -- Patents and the market for technology / Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, Alfonso Gambardella -- Networks, standards and intellectual property rights / Johannes Moenius, Vitor Trindade -- The law and economics of international intellectual property : a primer /...