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We study the effect of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime of a host country (South) on a multinational's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows...
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This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the …
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effective in preventing contract violation up to a critical level of absorptive capacity. We relate this to the US Trade …
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. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … trade costs shifts from the market share losses brought by PI from the more to the less productive firm. This induces the …
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The Doha declaration on trade and environment proposed to clarify the relationship between multilateral environmental … agreement (MEA) trade obligations and WTO rules by only guaranteeing economic integration upon ratification of certain MEAs. In … other words, it pushed to authorize the use of trade measures against non-compliance, denying a non-signatory of its WTO …
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developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade …
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countries. In each country, the incumbent autocrat will cater to the preferences of the elites when setting trade policy and the … manufacturing sector. This, in turn, can lead to a shift in the comparative advantage, a decision to open up to trade and an inflow …
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systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … economic performance. It suggests that the unequal distribution of land endowments conferred differential gains from trade …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant …
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