Export Competitiveness and Trade Agreements: Analysis and Insights from Israel’s Experience

Israeli manufactured export performance has been on a growth path for the past two decades. This growth is partly due to the continuing shift in Israeli export specialization patterns from traditional products towards technology-intensified exports. However, Israel’s strong export competitiveness also derives from proliferating free trade agreements (FTAs) with its trading partners, especially the European Union (EU). This paper analyzes export statistics to provide data validating the positive impact of recent FTAs on Israel’s export comparative advantages across all sectors between 1995 and 2015. It employs an econometric framework to examine stability and specialization trends, as well as convergence. Furthermore, the authors add to the literature by performing a survival analysis, using the Kaplan-Meier Survival Rate model, to identify particular Israeli export sectors that have benefited from a longer pe- riod of competitive advantage than other sectors due to the EU-Israel Association Agreement

Droit d'auteur et co (régulation) : la politique du droit d'auteur sur l'internet

The enforceability and legitimacy of copyright law on the internet have been the subjects of several scholarly works. However, there were few studies that outlined the regulatory models available for the online world with respect to copyright policy. The main thesis of this study is that copyright law can be effectively used and enforced in an electronic environment through co-regulation. The author examines the theoretical underpinnings of copyright and droit d'auteur and argues that a global copyright is now being created. Stemming from this first conclusion, he attempts to show how, worldwide, the means of traditional regulation as well as self-regulation present several shortcomings when confronted with the criteria of legitimacy and enforceability. Rather, it is argued that a third option ought to be considered, one that consists of an effective mix between private and public spheres. Co-regulation appears indeed to address the problems raised by the use of other regulatory models while deferring to copyright policy