Institutions Trade & Economic Development
Economics Programme The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences solicits proposals under its economics programme. The programme funds research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the US economy and of the world system of which it is a part. Support is given to both empirical and […]
Call for Papers International Workshop on Networks and Trade 3-4 October 2013, Leuven (Belgium) jointly organized by: Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven; Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven; Research Group Globalization, Innovation and Competition, HU Brussels; International Network for Economic Research (INFER) Prior to this workshop, the 3rd Belgian Social and Economic Network […]
Call for Papers International Workshop on Firm and Product Heterogeneity in International Trade 15-16 November 2013, Leuven (Belgium) jointly organized by: Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven; Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven; Research Group Globalization, Innovation and Competition, HU Brussels; International Network for Economic Research (INFER); With the financial support of the Research […]
University of Exeter Business School, May 30th-31st 2013 The main program comprised of 12 contributions on how institutional variation, particularly between developed and developing countries, affects the pattern of trade and the economics of conflict and corruption. Although the papers differed in approach, they all emphasized how different institutional settings can affect the performance […]
According to “An Economic Theory of the GATT” by Bagwell and Staiger (1999), the main purpose of a trade agreement is to escape from a terms-of-trade driven prisoner’s dilemma. This is where all countries have a collective incentive to liberalise trade but an individual incentive to adopt protectionist measures such as tariffs. Recent econometric evidence […]
The availability of natural resources can directly affect the prospects of growth of a nation and their geographic distribution is uneven across and within countries. On one hand this can create opportunities for international trade between resource scarce and resource rich countries or, at the national level, generate revenues to be invested in development projects. […]
There is considerable debate over whether and how political institutions affect economic performance and vice versa. Does the form of government, democracy or dictatorship, have an important bearing on economic growth and efficiency, and how does growth affect the consolidation of democracy? Under what circumstances is democracy a spur for greater equality, and does inequality […]
“How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn’t do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin–the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank–focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves…” [Publisher’s book website] […]
Among the stated aims of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. And yet there is considerable debate over how successful it has been at accomplishing these objectives. One view is that it manages a considerable degree of success in institutional environments […]
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 […]