Institutions Trade & Economic Development
We would like to thank The School of Economics, University of Nottingham, for hosting and sponsoring the 6th InsTED Workshop. We would also like to thank the Nottingham School of Economics for incorporating The World Economy Lecture into the InsTED Workshop, and Wiley for sponsoring this. The workshop took place from September 20th-22nd, 2019. […]
Making Globalization More Inclusive: Lessons from experience with adjustment policies Edited by Marc Bacchetta (WTO and University of Neuchâtel), Emmanuel Milet (Geneva School of Economics and Management) and José-Antonio Monteiro (WTO and University of Neuchâtel) Policies aimed at helping workers adjust to the impact of trade or technological changes can provide a helping hand to the workforce […]
By Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University) The idea that colonial institutions are fundamental in explaining the divergent development trajectories of New World countries is well-established.[1] In this view, colonial institutions led to longstanding differences in the protection of property rights or the provision of public goods in countries such as the US and Canada on the […]
By Joel Rodrigue (Vanderbilt University) and Yong Tan (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics) For the typical Chinese exporter, foreign sales grew exponentially after China’s entry to the WTO. How was this so-called ‘economic miracle’ achieved in such a short span of time? Answering this question has been the focus of policymakers, government officials, and […]
By Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University), Rodrigo R. Soares (Columbia University), and Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford) The idea that economic crises can lead to increased crime is far from new, dating back at least to the Great Depression of the 1930s.[1] Such concern is well justified, as crime imposes a substantial welfare cost on society. However, estimating the causal […]
By Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University) and Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University) The Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) requires that all WTO members provide a minimum level of patent protection for all types of intellectual property. This requirement has created a problem for developing countries in obtaining access to patented […]
Ron Alquist, (AQR Capital Management), Nicolas Berman (Aix-Marseille University), Rahul Muhkerjee (Graduate Institute, Geneva), and Linda L. Tesar (University of Michigan) Cross border mergers and acquisitions (CBMA) as a form of foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs) have grown rapidly in the last two decades. For emerging market economies (EMEs) in particular, the […]
Ben Zissimos (University of Exeter Business School) My new edited volume tilted The WTO and Economic Development, brings together a collection of perspectives on different aspects of the purpose and institutional design of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and how these relate to economic development.[1] The perspectives are contributed by a group of leading scholars in the […]
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) are excited to host the 2019 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) at UC Berkeley on Thursday, May 30th and Friday, May 31st. SEEDEC, now in its eighth year, brings together a community of scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics […]
Aditya Dasgupta (University of California, Merced), Kishore Gawande (University of Texas, Austin), and Devesh Kapur (Johns Hopkins University – SAIS) More than half of all nations have experienced a violent civil conflict since 1960.[1] One of the best predictors of conflict outbreak in a country is a low level of economic development and whether it […]