INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND TRADE: WHICH INSTITUTIONS? WHICH 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: Economic Inquiry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0095-2583,1465-7295
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2007.00064.x