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The Economics and Political Economy of Going beyond the GATS
This paper addresses the economic and political economy factors explaining why countries agree upon services commitments in regional trade agreements...
ACTA – The Ethical Analysis of a Failure, and its Lessons
ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was originally meant to enforce and harmonise IPR provisions in existing trade agreements within a...
Trade Costs and Productivity in Services Sectors
For goods sectors, there is extensive empirical evidence that lower trade costs are associated with higher productivity at the firm- and...
Beyond Dutch Disease: When Deteriorating Rule of Law affects Russian Trade in High-Tech Goods and Services with Advanced Economies
How does Russia’s deterioration of its rule of law in recent years affect its ability to move away from an export pattern dominated by natural...
The International Services Agreement (ISA) – From the European Vantage Point
Services liberalisation has perhaps suffered from the deadlock of the WTO more than any other area of trade. As the discussions of a potential...
What is Driving the Rise in Health Care Expenditures? An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Cost Disease
The last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a...
Deleveraging, Traditional versus Capital Markets Banking and the Urgent Need to Separate and Recapitalise G-SIFI Banks
Since the crisis, even with massive support from governments and central banks, widespread regulatory changes and promises from bank executives to...
FUTURE-PROOFING WORLD TRADE IN TECHNOLOGY: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)
Despite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World...