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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals: May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper tries to construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants.

Privatization Issues No comments yet
Tags: reform, privatization, liberalization,
Comparison of State Support to Agricultural Sector in Azerbaijan with WTO Requirements: May 15, 2007 09:54
This publication is the EPIN working paper series and compares the internal assisstance policy implemented in the agrarian sector in Azerbaijan Republic with WTO requirements and put forward the recommendations for adjusting this policy to these requirements.

EPIN No comments yet
Tags: agriculture, WTO, subsidies, liberalization, Azerbaijan, epin
Bulgaria's institutions and policies : integrating into Pan-European markets: November 23, 2007 13:09
This paper analyzes the process of institutional transformation in Bulgaria and assesses the extent to which it has established institutions and policies fostering domestic economic activity and integration into global markets.

Financial Markets No comments yet
Tags: Bulgaria, market, reform, trade, liberalization
Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare costs of lost multilateral liberalization: November 26, 2007 17:33
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the past 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows down multilateral trade liberalization. Recent theoretical and empirical evidence indicates this is the case even for unilateral preferences that industrial countries provide to small and poor countries but there is no estimate of the resulting welfare costs. To avoid this stumbling block effect the authors suggest replacing unilateral preferences by a fixed import subsidy.

Trade and Investment Facilitation No comments yet
Tags: trade, developing, liberalization, WTO
Trade liberalization and the politics of financial development: November 26, 2007 17:34
Using a sample of 41 trade liberalizers the authors conduct an event study and show that the change in the strength of promoters vis-a-vis opponents is a very good predictor of subsequent financial development. The result is not driven by changes in demand for external funds, or by the success of the trade policy. The relationship is mediated by policy reforms, the kind that induces competition in the financial sector, in particular.

Trade and Investment Facilitation No comments yet
Tags: finance, industry, trade, liberalization
The clash of liberalizations : preferential versus multilateral trade liberalization in the European Union: November 26, 2007 17:36
The authors confirm the main prediction-the European Union's preferential trade agreements have clashed with its multilateral trade liberalization--and find that the effect is quantitatively significant. Moreover, they also confirm several auxiliary predictions of the model and provide new evidence on the political economy determinants of multilateral liberalization in the European Union.

Trade and Investment Facilitation No comments yet
Tags: trade, liberalization, EU, political, economy
Distribution Channels in Export Promotion: Can the State Help?: January 18, 2008 12:19
This paper gives a brief overview of the techniques used by the Belarusian government to market exports, in particular the creation of distribution channels, as this part of the export activities of Belarusian enterprises is usually not very effective.

Foreign Trade No comments yet
Tags: export, Belarus, enterprise, trade, liberalization