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No. 105 | 14 Sept 2010 |
Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries - China's Intellectual Property Environment
Along many dimensions, China has made progress in strengthening the protection of intellectual property (IP) and expanding its research and development (R&D) base over the past two decades. Meanwhile, people’s understanding of IP has gone beyond a... |
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No. 104 | 14 Sept 2010 |
Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries
The past two decades have witnessed an active period of global reform with respect to policies concerning Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). This paper examines – from an empirical, economic perspective – policies that complement the generally... |
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No. 103 | 29 Sept 2010 |
Trade and Innovation: Report on the Chemicals Sector
This study analyses linkages between trade and innovation in the chemicals sector, building on past work at the OECD on trade and innovation. The chemicals sector has a long history of innovation and is a large trading item. It covers very diverse... |
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No. 106 | 06 Dec 2010 |
Multilateralising Regionalism: How Preferential Are Services Commitments in Regional Trade Agreements?
This report examines services schedules of commitments in 56 regional trade agreements (RTAs) where an OECD country is a party. The preferential content of RTAs is assessed through an analysis of market access and national treatment commitments at... |
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No. 107 | 31 Jan 2011 |
The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Jobs and Growth
This report shows how more open markets in goods and services can contribute to creating jobs and increase incomes. Reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers can help in the short run where the economic crisis has led to significant involuntary... |
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No. 108 | 01 Mar 2011 |
To What Extent Are High-Quality Logistics Services Trade Facilitating?
Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time as well as... |
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No. 109 | 01 Apr 2011 |
The Role of Factor Content in Trade
The pattern of trade analysed from a factor content perspective reflects the relative factor endowments of the countries examined. Although some large economies, such as the United States, seem to exhibit counter-intuitive behaviour, this is reversed... |
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No. 113 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Trade and Innovation: Pharmaceuticals
Globalisation in the pharmaceuticals sector is entering a new phase. Many new drugs are marketed globally, and these revenues encourage further investment in research and development (R&D). The industry is undergoing substantial transition, with... |
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No. 111 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Transparency Mechanisms and Non-Tariff Measures
Lack of regulatory transparency is a major and recurrent obstacle for businesses seeking to trade internationally. This study finds that transparency mechanisms applied at different stages of the design, finalisation and implementation of domestic... |
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No. 110 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Dynamic Gains from Trade
Dynamic gains from trade can be an important conduit for increased firm-level innovation and productivity, both key components of economic growth. This paper builds on previous research on the dynamic gains from trade by moving beyond a single... |
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No. 112 | 14 Apr 2011 |
The Political Economy of Services in Regional Trade Agreements
Do the services commitments that countries have made in their post-Uruguay Round regional trade agreements (RTAs) indicate the types of concessions that they would be willing to multilateralise in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)?... |
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No. 116 | 24 Jun 2011 |
Estimating the Constraints to Trade of Developing Countries
The severity of binding constraints to trade expansion in developing countries and the importance of the complementary policies that will maximize the impact of trade reforms on trade and economic growth are identified and quantified in this report.... |
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No. 114 | 24 Jun 2011 |
Intra-Firm Trade
The emergence of global value chains and the expansion of activities of multinational enterprises have increased the value of intra-firm trade flows. Despite growing attention from policymakers, few data are collected on trade transactions between... |
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No. 115 | 28 Jun 2011 |
Trade in Information and Communications Technology and its Contribution to Trade and Innovation
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been seen as a major contributor to productivity growth and as a key tool for innovation. Trade liberalisation can play a role in encouraging ICT adoption by fostering competition and by reducing... |
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No. 117 | 10 Aug 2011 |
Trade in Tasks
Specialisation or division of labour is an important source of economic growth, but the degree of division of labour is constrained by the extent of the market. Trade in tasks represents the latest turn in a virtuous cycle of deepening... |
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No. 118 | 22 Aug 2011 |
Trade Facilitation Indicators
This report presents the findings of the OECD indicators for assessing the economic and trade impact of specific trade facilitation measures in OECD countries. Twelve trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) have been constructed, corresponding to the... |
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No. 121 | 05 Oct 2011 |
Comparative Advantage and Trade Performance
This paper builds on recent generalisations of theory and empirics of comparative advantage and establishes the relative importance of different sources of comparative advantage in explaining trade, with particular focus on policy and institutional... |
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No. 119 | 10 Oct 2011 |
To What Extent Do Exchange Rates and their Volatility Affect Trade?
Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an... |
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No. 122 | 12 Oct 2011 |
Wage Implications of Trade Liberalisation
The relationship between trade and wages has been subject to intense scrutiny in the academic literature with no clear consensus emerging. This paper adds to this body of research by moving beyond the single country analysis level to a panel... |
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No. 133 | 19 Oct 2011 |
Employment and the Political Economy of Trade
The aims of this paper are to review the main schools of thought on the political economy of trade and employment, to review the empirical evidence supporting these schools, and to consider the implications for public policy. Special emphasis is... |
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Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries - China's Intellectual Property Environment
Minyuan Zhao
14 Sept 2010
Along many dimensions, China has made progress in strengthening the protection of intellectual property (IP) and expanding its research and development (R&D) base over the past two decades. Meanwhile, people’s understanding of IP has gone beyond a...
Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries
Ricardo H. Cavazos Cepeda, Douglas C. Lippoldt and Jonathan Senft
14 Sept 2010
The past two decades have witnessed an active period of global reform with respect to policies concerning Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). This paper examines – from an empirical, economic perspective – policies that complement the generally...
Trade and Innovation: Report on the Chemicals Sector
Nobuo Kiriyama
29 Sept 2010
This study analyses linkages between trade and innovation in the chemicals sector, building on past work at the OECD on trade and innovation. The chemicals sector has a long history of innovation and is a large trading item. It covers very diverse...
Multilateralising Regionalism: How Preferential Are Services Commitments in Regional Trade Agreements?
Sébastien Miroudot, Jehan Sauvage and Marie Sudreau
06 Dec 2010
This report examines services schedules of commitments in 56 regional trade agreements (RTAs) where an OECD country is a party. The preferential content of RTAs is assessed through an analysis of market access and national treatment commitments at...
The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Jobs and Growth
OECD
31 Jan 2011
This report shows how more open markets in goods and services can contribute to creating jobs and increase incomes. Reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers can help in the short run where the economic crisis has led to significant involuntary...
To What Extent Are High-Quality Logistics Services Trade Facilitating?
Jane Korinek and Patricia Sourdin
01 Mar 2011
Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time as well as...
The Role of Factor Content in Trade
Susan Stone, Ricardo H. Cavazos Cepeda and Anna Jankowska
01 Apr 2011
The pattern of trade analysed from a factor content perspective reflects the relative factor endowments of the countries examined. Although some large economies, such as the United States, seem to exhibit counter-intuitive behaviour, this is reversed...
Trade and Innovation: Pharmaceuticals
Nobuo Kiriyama
01 Apr 2011
Globalisation in the pharmaceuticals sector is entering a new phase. Many new drugs are marketed globally, and these revenues encourage further investment in research and development (R&D). The industry is undergoing substantial transition, with...
Transparency Mechanisms and Non-Tariff Measures
Evdokia Moïsé
01 Apr 2011
Lack of regulatory transparency is a major and recurrent obstacle for businesses seeking to trade internationally. This study finds that transparency mechanisms applied at different stages of the design, finalisation and implementation of domestic...
Dynamic Gains from Trade
Susan Stone and Ben Shepherd
01 Apr 2011
Dynamic gains from trade can be an important conduit for increased firm-level innovation and productivity, both key components of economic growth. This paper builds on previous research on the dynamic gains from trade by moving beyond a single...
The Political Economy of Services in Regional Trade Agreements
Craig VanGrasstek
14 Apr 2011
Do the services commitments that countries have made in their post-Uruguay Round regional trade agreements (RTAs) indicate the types of concessions that they would be willing to multilateralise in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)?...
Estimating the Constraints to Trade of Developing Countries
Jean-Jacques Hallaert, Ricardo H. Cavazos Cepeda and Gimin Kang
24 Jun 2011
The severity of binding constraints to trade expansion in developing countries and the importance of the complementary policies that will maximize the impact of trade reforms on trade and economic growth are identified and quantified in this report....
Intra-Firm Trade
Rainer Lanz and Sébastien Miroudot
24 Jun 2011
The emergence of global value chains and the expansion of activities of multinational enterprises have increased the value of intra-firm trade flows. Despite growing attention from policymakers, few data are collected on trade transactions between...
Trade in Information and Communications Technology and its Contribution to Trade and Innovation
Nobuo Kiriyama
28 Jun 2011
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been seen as a major contributor to productivity growth and as a key tool for innovation. Trade liberalisation can play a role in encouraging ICT adoption by fostering competition and by reducing...
Trade in Tasks
Rainer Lanz, Sébastien Miroudot and Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
10 Aug 2011
Specialisation or division of labour is an important source of economic growth, but the degree of division of labour is constrained by the extent of the market. Trade in tasks represents the latest turn in a virtuous cycle of deepening...
Trade Facilitation Indicators
Evdokia Moïsé, Thomas Orliac and Peter Minor
22 Aug 2011
This report presents the findings of the OECD indicators for assessing the economic and trade impact of specific trade facilitation measures in OECD countries. Twelve trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) have been constructed, corresponding to the...
Comparative Advantage and Trade Performance
Przemyslaw Kowalski
05 Oct 2011
This paper builds on recent generalisations of theory and empirics of comparative advantage and establishes the relative importance of different sources of comparative advantage in explaining trade, with particular focus on policy and institutional...
To What Extent Do Exchange Rates and their Volatility Affect Trade?
Marilyne Huchet-Bourdon and Jane Korinek
10 Oct 2011
Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an...
Wage Implications of Trade Liberalisation
Susan Stone and Ricardo H. Cavazos Cepeda
12 Oct 2011
The relationship between trade and wages has been subject to intense scrutiny in the academic literature with no clear consensus emerging. This paper adds to this body of research by moving beyond the single country analysis level to a panel...
Employment and the Political Economy of Trade
Craig VanGrasstek
19 Oct 2011
The aims of this paper are to review the main schools of thought on the political economy of trade and employment, to review the empirical evidence supporting these schools, and to consider the implications for public policy. Special emphasis is...