Cross-border reserve markets: network constraints in cross-border reserve procurement

Cross-Border Innovation in

Fair trade is a means of governing South-North supply chains to increase the benefits of international trade integration for poor southern producers of agricultural and handicraft goods. Although the approach itself is arguably innovative in comparison with commercially orientated supply chains, many consider that its formalisation within third-party, Fairtrade International certification, has ...

Financial Burden of Border Hospital in Caring for Cross-Border Patients: A Short Note From Thailand

Cross-border banking in regulated markets: Is financial integration desirable?

We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of monitoring of firms and thus the levels of risk-taking, where the risk of bank failure is partly bor...

Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions:

This paper explores the impact of cross-border M&As on host economies of Korea ; China; and Hong Kong, China. For an intensive analytical research on this topic, this paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the various impacts of cross-border M&As on the competitiveness of the host economies. We apply this framework to the data from five outstanding and considerable cases of each...

Cross-border genetic testing

As genetic testing (GT) is now available for many rare disorders, no GT laboratory can be expert enough to provide every test. Samples are therefore sent between laboratories for testing, often across borders. Such cross-border testing raises some questions: The 2003 OECD survey of 827 molecular GT laboratories in 18 countries found that 64% of laboratories had received samples from abroad. Thi...