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European Financial Supervision in an Age of Growing Financial Integration: The Current Situation and the Outlook for Reform
This paper will first discuss how the current configuration EU financial market and supervision evolved in its historical setting. The paper will...
Should China Revalue its Currency? Lessons from the Japanese Experience
There is a similarity of pattern between the present international pressures for RMB revaluation and pressures which were exerted on Japan in the...
The Health of Nations: Conceptualizing Approaches to Trade in Health Care
The forces of the Wealth of nations are not at work for the Health of nations. Economic and trade integration have progressed over the last fifty...
Institutions and Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries
The years since 1990 have witnessed an international wave of reform and institutional change with respect to intellectual property rights (IPRs),...
Sweden – From Free Trade to Protectionism?
Sweden has been one of the leading voices for freer trade in the post-war era. Its support for the multilateral trading system has been strong. Today...
Promoting Tokyo as an International Financial Center
Japan’s economic power is widely recognized worldwide—thanks to it being the worlds 2nd largest economy (US$4.3 trillion equivalent GDP in 2006)...
Modal Estimates of Services Barriers
This paper presents improved approaches to measurement of services barriers by using alternative weighting methods and improved econometric...
Le soutien à la production cinématographique française : à qui profite l’exception culturelle?
French cinema benefits from a massive public support: the aids verge on 38% of the unassisted value of the cinematographic production, and the...
A Transatlantic Divide?
The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...