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Writing Multilateral Trade Rules in the League of Nations
This article analyses the mechanics and the political stakes of multilateral trade negotiations in the League of Nations, in the context of the transition from empires to nation states. It examines one attempt to transfer bilateral treaty norms to a multil ...
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2021Holistic Approach to Sufficient, Reliable and Efficient Electricity Supply in Hospitals of Developing Countries: Cameroon Case Study
While health technology has shown constant improvements in industrialized countries, developing countries have not been able to take full advantage of this evolution, partly because of unstable power supplies. According to a World Health Organization study ...
Spring2015Trade Policy: Home Market Effect versus Terms-of-Trade Externality
We study trade policy in a two-sector Krugman (1980) trade model, allowing for production, import and export subsidies/taxes. We consider non-cooperative and cooperative trade policy, first for each individual instrument and then for the situation where al ...
Center for Fiscal Policy Working Paper Series2013Evolution of the global virtual water trade network
Global freshwater resources are under increasing pressure from economic development, population growth, and climate change. The international trade of water-intensive products (e.g., agricultural commodities) or virtual water trade has been suggested as a ...
2012Border adjustment measures as instruments to reduce emissions leakage
Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera
We analyze carbon-related BAMs (focused on imports) as potential instruments to reduce emissions leakage. We combine an approach from international trade law with an economic approach. For the legal aspect we discuss the elements needed to include carbon-r ...
NCCR-Climate Working Paper2010Examining how TRIPS implementation affects access to foreign technologies for developing countries
Intan Maizurah Hamdan Livramento
By the year 2016 every member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has to comply with its agreement on the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS or the Agreement). This implies that ...
EPFL2009How compliant are developing countries with their TRIPS obligations?
Intan Maizurah Hamdan Livramento
This paper constructs an intellectual property rights (IPR) index based on the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement for 53 developing countries. TRIPS agreement attempts to standardize the minim ...
2009Monetary-Labor Interactions, International Monetary Regimes, and Central Bank Conservatism
A two-country general equilibrium model with large wage setters and conservative monetary authorities is employed to investigate the welfare implications of three international monetary regimes: i) non-cooperative, ii) cooperative, and iii) monetary union. ...
Center for Fiscal Policy Working Paper Series2009