Institutions Trade & Economic Development
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network Ahmad Lashkaripour (Penn State University) His research interests are in international trade, and industrial organization. Prof Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan) His research to date studies the interplay between international trade and economic institutions, the impact of trade on macroeconomic fluctuations, and the consequences […]
DFID, the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) wish to explore the potential for working together to enhance the trade performance of African countries, and its development impact. They have agreed to jointly conduct a country-specific study on the potential and challenges of African trade […]
The Lucas Paradox draws attention to the fact that capital should flow from rich to poor countries, but that on average the flow is in the other direction. Lucas’ original (1990) illustration of this phenomenon was couched in terms of a neoclassical model in which two identical countries produce identical goods from a common constant […]
Kose, M.A., E. Prasad, K. Rogoff and S.-J. Wei (2009) “Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal” IMF Staff Papers 56(1): 8-62. [Working paper version]
The S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy will be awarded for the 2014-15 academic year to support advanced research at the University of California, Berkeley. For the purposes of this fellowship, natural resources are defined broadly to include environmental resources. The fellowship encourages, but is not limited to, policy- oriented […]
The Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement is an undertaking by members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to respect each others’ property rights. At its inception, its main purpose was to protect the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of Northern firms, who have historically tended to be the main innovators, in Southern markets […]
The World Trade Organization — backbone of today’s international commercial relations — requires member countries to self-enforce exporters’ access to foreign markets. Its dispute settlement system is the crown jewel of the international trading system, but its benefits still fall disproportionately to wealthy nations. Could the system be doing more on behalf of developing countries? In Self-Enforcing Trade, […]
Providing a more robust evidence base for policy makers and practitioners. The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is expanding an exciting systematic review programme that aims to strengthen evidence-informed decision making. DFID has developed a set of systematic review questions based on policy and practice priorities and is now calling for proposals from interested reviewers to […]
We would like to welcome our new research assistant, Kritchasorn Jarupasin, to InsTED. He is a PhD student in the department of economics at the University of Exeter Business School and his PhD thesis is on topics relevant to the network. Thanks to the University of Exeter Business School’s seedcorn research fund and the HASS […]
Economists until the age of 35 (born 1978 or later) are invited to apply for this award by submitting up to three published or unpublished papers in the field of global economic affairs, and specifically pertaining to the following areas: International Trade and FDI Knowledge Creation and Growth Poverty Reduction, Equity and Development Environmental Policy Reforming the […]