Documents et rapports
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The trade-reducing effects of restrictions on liner shipping (anglais)
This paper examines how policy governing the liner shipping sector affects maritime transport costs and seaborne trade flows. The paper uses a novel data set and finds that restrictions, particularly on...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6921 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bertho,Fabien,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services : the role of policy and industrial structure (anglais)
This paper presents evidence on the determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services sectors. It develops a stylized model of mergers and acquisitions that predicts that the incidence...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6905 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barattieri, Alessandro,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Open skies over the Middle East (anglais)
The dynamism of air traffic markets in the Middle East obscures the persistence of restrictions on international competition. But how important are such restrictions for passenger traffic? This paper uses...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6937 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cristea,Anca Diana,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Guide to the services trade restrictions database (anglais)
A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy assembled in a comparable manner across 103 countries, five sectors (telecommunications...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6108 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Policy barriers to international trade in services : evidence from a new database (anglais)
Surprisingly little is known about policies that affect international trade in services. Previous analyses have focused on policy commitments made by countries in international agreements but these commitments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6109 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Spillover effects of exchange rates : a study of the Renminbi (anglais)
This paper estimates how changes in China's exchange rates would affect exports from competitor countries in third-country markets -- in other words, the "spillover effect." The authors use recent theory...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5989 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya,Mishra,Prachi,Subramanian,Arvind
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Services reform and manufacturing performance : evidence from India (anglais)
The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates the significant impact of a neglected...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5948 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arnold,Jens Matthias,Javorcik,Beata,Lipscomb, Molly,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Landlocked or policy locked ? how services trade protection deepens economic isolation (anglais)
A new cross-country database on services policy reveals a perverse pattern: many landlocked countries restrict trade in the very services that connect them with the rest of the world. On average, telecommunications...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5942 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Grover,Arti Goswami,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Can global de-carbonization inhibit developing country industrialization ? (anglais)
Most economic analyses of climate change have focused on the aggregate impact on countries of mitigation actions. The authors depart first in disaggregating the impact by sector, focusing particularly...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5121 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya,Subramanian,Arvind,Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique,He, Jianwu
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Reconciling climate change and trade policy (anglais)
There is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon prices. The authors confirm the findings of other research that unilateral emissions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5123 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya,Subramanian,Arvind,Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique,He, Jianwu
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Criss-crossing globalization : uphill flows of skill-intensive goods and foreign direct investment (anglais)
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. The authors first present a set of stylized...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5047 Date du document: 1 septembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya,Subramanian,Arvind
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Labor skills and foreign investment in a dynamic economy : estimating the knowledge-capital model for Singapore (anglais)
Singapore is an interesting example of how the pattern of foreign investment changes with economic development. The authors analyze inbound and outbound investment between Singapore and a sample of industrialized...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4950 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chellaraj,Gnanaraj,Maskus,Keith E.,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Services in Doha : what's on the table ? (anglais)
Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4903 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Foreign professionals and domestic regulation (anglais)
Changes in demographics and patterns of investment in human capital are creating increased scope for international trade in professional services. The scope for mutually beneficial trade is, however, inhibited...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4782 Date du document: 1 novembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya,Mishra, Deepak
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Currency undervaluation and sovereign wealth funds : a new role for the World Trade Organization (anglais)
Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and eroding legitimacy, the International...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4668 Date du document: 1 juillet 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya,Subramanian,Arvind