One of the greatest problems facing luxury goods firms in a globalizing market is that of counterfeiting. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different types of counterfeiting that take place in the fashion industry and the ethical issues raised. We argue that the problem partly lies in the industry itself. Copying of designs is endemic and condoned, which raises several ethical dilemma...

In the past few years, policymakers, academic commentators, consumer advocates, civil liberties groups, and user communities have expressed grave concerns about the steadily increasing levels of enforcement of intellectual property rights. Taking note of these concerns, this Occasional Paper brings together two recently published essays discussing the ongoing efforts to strengthen intellectual ...

We use a new database of commitments made during the process ratifying Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to study variation in countries’ commitment behaviour. The TFA is novel World Organization agreement because it allows developing countries select from menu best practices trade facilitation, rather than consent, or not, comprehensive package negotiated commitments. operation this á la cart...

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