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Reputation Matters: Spillover Effects in the Enforcement of US SPS Measures
This paper uses a novel dataset on US food import refusals to show that reputation is an important factor in the enforcement of sanitary and...
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What is Driving the Rise in Health Care Expenditures? An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Cost Disease
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: healthcareThe last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a...
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Aid for Trade Effectiveness: What do Evaluations Say?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: trade...
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African Cotton Markets at Crossroads: Will the Price Spike Turn into a New Kick-Start?
After years of diplomatic efforts and legal procedures to obtain the elimination of rich countries’ cotton subsidies, policy prospects for African...
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The Elusive Quest for Supply Response to Cash-crop Market Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Cotton
Little cross-cutting conclusions emerge from comparative studies on the impact of structural adjustment on Sub-Saharan African agricultural...
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Ideas for New Transatlantic Initiatives on Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe US and the EU have the capacity to play a leading role together in promoting international trade liberalisation. They remain the economic giants...
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Public Support for Trade Policy
Public opinion data suggests that people on both sides of the Atlantic are committed to free trade in principle, but advocate protection...
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The Multilateralism Conundrum: International Economic Relations in the Post-hegemonic Era
Examining the systemic malaise from which the Doha Development Round and the WTO suffer, this working paper, produced for the Transatlantic Task...
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The Role of International Business in Aid for Trade: Building Capacity for Trade in Developing Countries
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecuritySince the launch of the global initiative on Aid for Trade in 2005, there has been a concerted effort by donors, partner agencies and recipients to...
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