Die Arbeit Die nachträgliche Überprüfung von präferenziellen Ursprungsnachweisen beschäftigt sich mit den Methoden der Überprüfung von Präferenznachweisen. Dargestellt wird das Präferenzrecht in dessen historischen Entwicklung anhand der vertraglichen Präferenzabkommen der Europ…
Prior to the war of 1975, Lebanon played a pivotal role in the regional trade between Europe and the Middle East. Lebanon is now negotiating a European-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) with the European Union (EU), a treaty that could decide whether the country would regain its pre…
Egypts' trade reform, currently underway, represent conscious efforts to end the markedly long isolation of the Egyptian economy from the competitive forces of world market initially dictated by a commitment to industrialization through import substitution and heavy reliance on …
The importing of tra, basa, and channel catfish at relatively lower prices has resulted in less catfish purchased from U.S. farmers and processors. Claims have been filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) accusing Vietnamese exporters of selling catfish to the U…
The wage gap between skilled workers and unskilled workers expanded in the U.S. Based on the essential idea of Stolper and Samuelson (1941) and following the mandated wage method of Haskel and Slaughter (2003), this dissertation examines whether the reductions of U.S. import tar…
This dissertation investigates how competition among heterogeneous firms affects R&D in quality enhancement in a quality-ladder type framework for a Cournot oligopolistic industry. The research also analyzes the welfare implications of various policies that promotes R&D. Some of…
This study empirically examines the effect of global financial integration on the profitability, efficiency, stock premia, funding and market liquidity conditions of the South African banking industry. The thesis uses a different dataset and methodology in each respective empiri…