Institutional Quality and International Trade
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Institutional Quality and International Trade
Institutions — quality of contract enforcement, property rights, shareholder protection, and the like — have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Yet trade theory has not considered the implications of institutional differences, beyond treating them simply as different technologies or taxes. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we propose a simple model of international t...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Review of Economic Studies
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1467-937X,0034-6527
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937x.2007.00435.x