In this article, I analyze the interaction between income tax competition and the multilateral trade regime. I argue that several forms of tax competition such as special tax zones (STZs), export tax incentives, participation exception, profit shifting toleration, and tax havens distort...

The Trump presidency and other reactionary conservative governments present an immensely powerful danger to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO is largely built on Members' willingness to comply with its rules, and the current Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is too weak to deter...

Does state ownership reduce the effectiveness of trade agreements? We examine the case of China, which is not only the world's largest trading nation but also lends active support to its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), potentially distorting global trade. Using Chinese import data disaggregated...

The global financial crisis led to the world-wide economic and financial uncertainty and instability. Currencies throughout the world got disbalanced and became unstable. This research paper is designed in a respect of promotion of currency stability with reference to International Monetary Fund...

This chapter, for a book focused on the future of the World Trade Organization, discusses three ways that global economic law and corresponding transnational dispute settlement systems have been constructed across time: via private contracting, inter-state contracting, or through principled...

This survey begins with an overview of the WTO/GATT system, which has been the heart of the rules-based, multilateral trading regime for over 70 years. It then devotes considerable attention to the WTO's dispute settlement system and how its has functioned to date. The survey examines the...

The empirical literature on the effect of trade agreements has reached a consensus that WTO effects are insignificant or modest at best especially compared to the robust and strong positive effect of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on bilateral trade (Rose, 2004; Eicher and Henn, 2011; Baier and...

The EU's and the US' written submissions in EU – Price Comparison Methodologies, for the first time, elaborated their respective positions on how Article 15 of China's WTO Accession Protocol should be interpreted and applied after fifteen years of China's entry into the WTO on 11 December...