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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Free trade agreements"”.
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Trade and investment effects of free trade agreements: The case of Vietnam
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are reciprocal trade agreements between two or more partners. The relatively recent emergence of deep and comprehensive RTAs is expected to have substantial impacts on members, especially developing countries. For a particular country, the impacts of RTAs on trade …
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Industrialization under the WTO : the impact of asymmetric free trade agreements on middle-technology developing countries
… WTO regime, focusing on the role of asymmetric free trade agreements. It proposes a framework where free trade agreements offer payoffs that countries have not been able to achieve through their WTO commitments. To evaluate these payoffs, I explore the mechanisms through which selected features …
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Five Public Concerns Represented by Environmental Groups in the Development of Regional Free Trade Agreements: A Case Study of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
… negotiations affected the formulation of the free trade agreement (FTA). More specifically, the project set out to determine if North American environmental groups successfully had public concerns addressed and codified in the Environment chapter of the USMCA. By analyzing official statements …
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Free Trade is Not Free: A Case for Fair Trade
<p>To this day, mainstream economists favor free trade policies as the best way to generate economic development. They do so at the expense of their unjustified romanticization of reductionist classical trade theories. This thesis seeks to comprehend the constraints of traditional trade theories …
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The Role of Foreign Patents in US Firms’ Patent Portfolios
… I exploit exogenous shocks to foreign sales (free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties) to identify the effect of foreign sales on the propensity to foreign patent. I find firms with a larger percentage of foreign sales have a higher propensity to foreign patent. Additional …
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Internalizing externalities: Roles of networks, clubs and policy commitments
… multiple climate clubs, as well as the role of free trade agreements among club members therein. The third essay studies effects of policy commitments to the provision of a new global-warming-relieving technology called solar radiation management relative to effects of policy commitments to …
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Empirical applications of price transmission in international agri-food supply chains
… taking place either as policy reforms or as free trade agreements, on the price transmission mechanism (vertical price transmission along the EU food supply chain and spatial price transmission between main producing countries). Essay 1 (discussed in Chapter 3) investigates the effects of the …
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Can Neoclassical Trade Theory Explain Congressional Voting?
<p>The neoclassical trade model has notoriously been unable to empirically predict trade flows throughout the world, however there has been a notion that the same theories and predictions could also be applied to democratic voting on free trade legislation. Using roll-call votes on three 2011 …
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The significance of the Cancún Ministerial: its context, reasons for breakdown and implications for the future
… possibility of the further growth of bilateral agreements. In order to place the agreements into context, the paper first considers the state of Free Trade Agreements prior to the formation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) followed by those agreements entered into under the auspices of the …
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The humble rice bowl: a critical analysis of the constitutional and legal effects of the global trading frameworks for rice on the Tolima province of Colombia
… regrettably the same does not apply to its trade, or to the effects of international and local legal frameworks within the so called “spaghetti bowl” of global trade including the World Trade Organization and Free Trade Agreements on non-Asiatic rice producing nations. In view of these …
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Services provisions in regional trade agreements : does the East African community stand to gain more from an integrated market?
… With the advent and development of technology, trade in services has grown more rapidly than trade in goods in world production. This has also resulted from ongoing economic reforms and the development of more liberal policies. Prior to the Uruguay Round of negotiations, international trade was …
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Explaining the increase of competitiveness in the Colombian car industry after the end of import substitution industralization [sic] policies
… It also tackled the new competition by signing free trade agreements, and making strategic alliances with auto part producers and auto dealers. The alliances, in turn, helped to create important backward and forward linkages to other sectors of the economy as well as new jobs. These linkages …
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'LEGAL ASPECTS REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LABOUR REGULATIONS ON BILATERAL FTAS: PRESENTING THE CHILEAN INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK AS AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT'
… society, which is to conciliate the global trade liberalization with the establishment of an efficient labour protection network, both on developed and on developing countries. The primary scope of this research is to bring up an analysis of the main direct and indirect impacts and the …
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Transatlantic trade partnerships and their consequences on copyright law: from global to regional
… economy. Copyright law is not very involved in trade agreements, in which there is more space about other intellectual property rights, such as patents, geographical indications, protected designation of origin, trademarks, designs. By setting harmonized standards in copyright law, contracting …
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Issues affecting utilization of the European Union’s Generalised System of Preference (GSP)
… thus enabling their economies to grow through trade. Krugman (1987). This thesis considers historical data to establish the main issues that influence the utilization of GSP; including application of GSP, academic theory in relation to the use of GSP and other preferential trade agreements such …
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A Comparative Analysis of Free Trade Between the U.S. and the EU : A Case Study of the U.S./Chile FTA and the EU/Chile FTA
<p>Unlike many studies that assess the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs), this thesis is a study of the negotiated outcomes in FTAs between the United States (U.S.) and Chile, and the European Union (EU) and Chile. Existing negotiation literature pertains to multilateral trade talks, dispute …
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Indonesia’s Patent Law at a Crossroads: Can Indonesia Implement a Constitutional Patent Law in the TRIPS and TRIPS-plus Era?
… through the standards adopted in the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and TRIPS-plus standards under free trade agreements. This shift of focus has created tensions between the interests of the inventors or patent owners …
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In name only: Water policy, the state, and ejidatario producers in northern Mexico
… of decentralization, privatization, and free trade strategies for improving water management in developing countries. The dissertation investigates these questions: How have the restructuring of water and agricultural policy impacted local producers in irrigation districts in Sonora? How …
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