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How Does Religion Bias the Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment? The Role of Institutions
We construct a gravity model of worldwide foreign direct investment stock (FDI) in order to study the effect of religion on FDI allocation. We...
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Trade in Services and TFP: The Role of Regulation
What determines services TFP: Is it services trade or services‐trade regulation? To respond to this question I use four indicators of...
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Value For Money: Getting Europe’s Trade and IPR Policy Right
Few issues in trade and international commercial policy have in the past decade provoked as much contention as intellectual property rights...
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Food Security and the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Facts Against Fears
Fears about food security in the EU have become a driving force in the debate about the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). But the facts do...
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FTA Networking in East Asia and Asia-Pacific: Where Are We Going?
This paper provides an overview on the recent development of FTA networking in extended East Asia and assesses the quality of FTAs with novel...
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What Will Basel III Achieve?
The overhaul of regulation of financial services now under way, as it affects the capital adequacy framework for banks operating internationally,...
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Product Standards and Developing Country Agricultural Exports: The Case of the European Union
This paper shows that private product standards in EU food and agriculture markets can have significant trade effects. In particular for developing...
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A Tale of Three Markets: How Government Policy Creates Winners and Losers in the Philippine Health Sector
For more than half a century the Philippines has been a leading exporter of human capital in the healthcare sector. This paper estimates that...
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Measuring the Cost of International Trade in Services
We present a new dataset of international trade costs in services sectors. Using a theory-based methodology combined with data on domestic shipments...