East Asian Free Trade Agreements in Services: Key Architectural Elements (2008)
Fink, Carsten, Molinuevo, Martín
Since the mid-1990s East Asian countries have negotiated 25 free trade agreements (FTAs) with a services component. There are important architectural differences in these agreements, which ultimately...
Assessing the Impact of Communication Costs on International Trade (2007)
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu, Mary Amiti, Caroline Freund
Abstract: Communication costs are frequently cited as an important determinant of trade costs, but without any supporting empirical evidence. We test this relationship by incorporating alternative...
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter? (2007)
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu, Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, Pierre Latrille, ...
Abstract: Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This paper examines why these costs are so high in some countries, and quantifies the importance of two explanations:...
How Stronger Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Affects International Trade Flows (2007)
Carsten Fink, Program World, Bank Comments, Clive Bell, ...
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) affect international trade flows when knowledge-intensive goods move across national boundaries. The importance of IPRs for trade has gained more significance as...
The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Stylized Facts (2007)
Eugenia Baroncelli, Carsten Fink, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
Trademarks are words, signs, symbols or combinations thereof that identify goods as manufactured by a particular person or a company, therefore allowing consumers to distinguish between goods...
Trade in health services in the ASEAN region (2007)
Arunanondchai, Jutamas, Fink, Carsten
Promoting quality health services to large population segments is a key ingredient to human and economic development. At its core, healthcare policymaking involves complex trade-offs between...
Evelyne De Leeuw, Kwok Cho Tang, Robert Beaglehole, Christine Mcnab, Anthony J. Mcmichael, Colin D. Butler, ...
1 Ottawa to Bangkok — Health promotion’s journey from principles to ‘glocal’ implementation
Introduction W(h)ither the Digital Divide? (2003)
Carsten Fink, Charles J. Kenny
Despite the groundward gyrations of new economy stocks, worrying about the ‘digital divide’
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Eep Rathindran
This paper analyzes the impact of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin...
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Eep Rathindran
Abstract: The liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries is examined in this paper with a view to identify the elements of good policy and examine how it can be promoted...
Abstract: Every major regional trade agreement now has a services dimension. Is trade in services so different that we need to modify the conclusions on preferential agreements reached so far in the...
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Eep Rathindran
This paper analyzes the impact of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin...
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Randeep Rathindran
Fink, Mattoo, and Rathindran analyze the effect of The authors find that both privatization and policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral competition lead to significant improvements in...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, Angelo Gurgel, Jel F, David Tarr, ...
The authors would like to thank the seminar participants at IPEA in Brasilia and BNDES in Rio de Janeiro, numerous agencies of the government of Brazil and Brazilian institutes and scholars
Trade in international maritime services : how much does policy matter?
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Neagu, Ileana Cristina
Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. The authors examine why these costs are so high in some countries, and, quantify the importance of two explanations: restrictive...
An assessment of telecommunications reform in developing countries
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The authors analyze the effect of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and...
Rules of origin in services : a case study of five ASEAN countries
Fink, Carsten, Nikomborirak, Deunden
An important question in the design of bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs) covering services is to what extent nonmembers benefit from the trade preferences that are negotiated among...
Trade in health services in the ASEAN region
Arunanondchai, Jutamas, Fink, Carsten
Promoting quality health services to large population segments is a key ingredient to human and economic development. At its core, healthcare policymaking involves complex tradeoffs between promoting...
How stronger protection of intellectual property rights affects international trade flows
Fink, Carsten, Braga, Carlos A. Primo
Intellectual property rights affect international trade flows when protected goods move across national boundaries. And intellectual property rights have grown in importance as the share of...
To address questions about how stronger patent rights will affect India's pharmaceutical industry, the author simulates the effects of introducing such protection - as required by the World trade...
Liberalizing basic telecommunications : the Asian experience
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The authors examine the liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries with a view to identifying good policy and determining how multilateral negotiations can promote it....
Regional agreements and trade services - policy issues
Mattoo, Aaditya, Fink, Carsten
Every major regional trade agreement now has a services dimension. Is trade in services so different that there is need to modify the conclusions on preferential agreements pertaining to goods...
Assessing the impact of communication costs on international trade
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Neagu, Ileana Cristina
Recent research suggests that trade costs influence the pattern of specialization and trade, but there is limited empirical research on the determinants of trade costs. The existing literature...
Income-related biases in international trade : what do trademark registration data tell us?
Carsten Fink, Javorcik,Beata, Mariana Spatareanu
Economists have long recognized that richer countries trade more among themselves than with poorer economies due to a closer match of exporter supply structures and importer preferences. In the...
The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Stylised Facts
Eugenia Baroncelli, Carsten Fink, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the global distribution of trademarks. It is based on a new dataset compiled by the authors from the statistical information published by the World...
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter?
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu
Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This article examines why these costs are so high in some countries and quantifies the importance of two explanations: restrictive...
Income-Related Biases in International Trade: What Do Trademark Registration Data Tell Us?
Carsten Fink, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu
Linder hypothesis, trademarks, product differentiation,
Intellectual Property and Public Health: An Overview of the Debate with a Focus on U.S. Policy
Over the past fifteen years, the United States and other developed countries have employed trade agreements to substantially strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights for...
Liberalizing Basic Telecommunications: The Asian Experience
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries is examined in this paper with a view to identify the elements of good policy and examine how it can be promoted through...
Telecommunications-Related Services: Market Access, Deeper Integration and the WTO
Braga, Carlos A.P., Fink, Carsten, Hoekman, Bernard
Liberalization and regulatory reform of telecom markets has emerged as a high profile policy issue. This paper analyzes how the multilateral system under the World Trade Organization can help...
East Asian preferential trade agreements in services: liberalization content and WTO rules
FINK, CARSTEN, MOLINUEVO, MART?N
The past seven years have seen a rapid proliferation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the East Asian region. Many of the recently concluded PTAs are comprehensive in their coverage, seeking...
Communicable and related diseases account for a substantial share of the disease burden in developing countries. Given the “public” nature of these diseases, the allocation of resources in this...
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter?
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu
Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This article examines why these costs are so high in some countries and quantifies the importance of two explanations: restrictive...