Geographical indications (GIs) represent the intellectual property rights, which protection could play a significant role in increasing regional and national trade. The paper reveals impact of protected GIs on international trade provides certain recommendations for Russia. There is an evident gap study effect development links, especially Russian enterprises. applies gravity model tests three ...

Abstract This article provides an in-depth analysis of the substantive protection provided to investors against indirect expropriations under EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement ( ceta ) and Constitution Finland. More specifically, we analyse these respective spheres in a regulatory context Finland where Canadian operate actively: industrial mining. The purpose comparative is provide tentative answe...

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the innovator faces a strict novelty requirement and can only patent a fraction of the innovation once. We...

We examine the case of an important outsider to the Cobden‐Chevalier network of bilateral treaties in the second half of the nineteenth century. We attempt to explain this through a study of the structure of Danish trade and protection. We demonstrate, in contrast to previous accounts that have considered Danish trade policy somewhat irrational, that Denmark was right to remai...