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Sweden – From Free Trade to Protectionism?
Sweden has been one of the leading voices for freer trade in the post-war era. Its support for the multilateral trading system has been strong. Today...
Promoting Tokyo as an International Financial Center
Japan’s economic power is widely recognized worldwide—thanks to it being the worlds 2nd largest economy (US$4.3 trillion equivalent GDP in 2006)...
Les principes d’organisation des autorités de régulation indépendantes pour les télécommunications
Les autorités de régulation sectorielles, créées au cours des années quatre-vingt-dix dans la plupart des pays du monde, sont des institutions...
Legal Framework Applicable to Publication of Direct Farm Subsidies in France
• Whereas for a long time Member States had full freedom to make farm subsidies data available, European law now aims at imposing more precise...
Has Economic Analysis Improved Regulatory Decisions?
In response to the increasing impact of regulation, several governments have introduced economic analysis as a way of trying to improve regulatory...
Le soutien à la production cinématographique française : à qui profite l’exception culturelle?
French cinema benefits from a massive public support: the aids verge on 38% of the unassisted value of the cinematographic production, and the...
Subsidies and Regulatory Reform in West African Cotton: What are the Development Stakes?
Available evidence strongly suggests that cotton producers in West Africa are relatively unresponsive to changes in world prices. This means they are...
Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
The Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...