Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17736 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1030
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries might grow to non-negligible dimensions. This paper examines the necessary reforms of the multilateral framework concerning standards, policy coordination and taxation and stresses that the new economy reinforces the need for consistent, transparent, non-discriminatory, simple and enforceable rules. Furthermore, strategies to overcome the digital divide between countries are set out.
Subjects: 
New Economy
Policy Coordination
Tax Distortion
Trade Diversion
WTO
Developing Countries
JEL: 
O3
O19
F02
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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