INDUSTRY GLOSSES OVER RED FLAGS IN TRADE AGREEMENTS

The Red Flags Rule: controversy over application to physicians.

LEGAL CHALLENGES UPDATE Our article in the June issue of JNIS described the legal challenges against the Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flags Rule, which requires “creditors” to adopt programs to protect their customers from identity theft. Specifically, on November 29, 2009, the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the FTC had improperly applied the Red Flags Rule to lawye...

Red flags in neuro-ophthalmology

Red flags in neuro-ophthalmology Some diseases of the brain presenting with visual symptoms are life threatening and need urgent management. This article discusses possible causes of double vision, vision loss with headache, and non-ocular vision loss. T he three most important 'red flag' symptoms that indicate that a patient may need neuro-ophthalmological assessment are: 1 Sudden onset of dou...

On Subsidies in Trade Agreements∗

The role of production subsidies in trade agreements has long been neglected by trade economists. To fill this gap, Bagwell and Staiger (2006) analyze this issue and show that, quite generally, the sole variable efficient trade agreements need to address is market access and that, moreover, the de facto prohibition of subsidies by prevailing WTO legislation is inefficient. The present paper sho...

Reciprocity in Free Trade Agreements

We use detailed trade, tariff, and income data for countries involved in 91 trade agreements negotiated since 1980 to test for reciprocity in free trade agreements. The results offer strong evidence of reciprocity in North-North and South-South free trade agreements, but there is little empirical support for reciprocity in North-South trade agreements. In particular, after controlling for other...

Preferential Trade Agreements